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Significados de mammonism en inglés
Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.
Sinónimos
Examples for "greed"
Examples for "greed"
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They send a message that greed is good; the individual comes first.
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Themes of justice, social issues, power and greed are common to both.
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And the people of northern Europe had an insatiable greed for beavers.
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Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
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This culture of greed is endemic, but perhaps that's a wider issue.
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It was always easy to count on avarice among the foot soldiers.
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The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor.
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This is true of avarice; but it is not so of economy.
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Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child.
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Where selfish ambition and avarice will be exposed in its true light.
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In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
2
Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
3
The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.
4
Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.
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The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.
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Crime prevailed; cupidity and vengeance were the guiding principles of the chieftains.
2
The hankering after these arises from pride, error of judgment, and cupidity.
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But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.
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He tried to satisfy this cupidity, but it stuck in his throat.
5
Property was secure, unless enormous fortunes tempted the cupidity of the emperors.
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Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
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Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
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Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
4
His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
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Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
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The loss of time greediness has inflicted on us has been frightful.
2
He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.
3
She was delighted to have the excuse for satisfying her own greediness.
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Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
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With a greediness that could not be concealed, Hakkabut grasped them all.
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Adeo enim sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.-Hen.
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Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.
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Yes, with his detestable greed for money, only money, Nourse was doubtless driving Joe.
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Of all the evil passions of this woman, the greed for money was the most ravenous.
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The common greed for money, position and outward appearance is weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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Some still persist in their belief that greed for money-themost common of motives-wasbehind it all.
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The result of his greed for money, and his defiance of all law, was a tremendous insurrection.
Uso de mammonism en inglés
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Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.
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I want, Christianity, instead of the Mammonism we 're threatened with.
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Mammonism, as we said, at least works; this goes idle.
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With our present system of individual Mammonism, and Government by Laissez-faire, this Nation cannot live.
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The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
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But of a Midas-eared Mammonism, which indeed at bottom all pure Mammonisms are, what better can you expect?
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Labour is not a devil, even while encased in Mammonism; Labour is ever an imprisoned god, writhing unconsciously or consciously to escape out of Mammonism!