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Значения термина greediness на английском

каталонский
cobdícia

An excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts)

cobdícia

An excessive desire for food.

Синонимы
Examples for "rapaciousness"
Examples for "rapaciousness"
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Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. / From...
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Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.
The Guardian
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And free love delivers the weak up to the rapaciousness of the strong.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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His kind of rapaciousness, it doesn't end.
Union Atlantic
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The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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Indeed their excessive voraciousness on such occasions produces, especially after long fasting, all the symptoms of drunkenness.
Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ung...
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At table, a man may with decency have a distinguishing palate; but indiscriminate voraciousness degrades him to a glutton.
Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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You may be able to charge through books, periodicals or other things with a voraciousness that might even surprise you.
Ebony
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He brings in with him a primitive voraciousness, and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite.
The People of the Abyss
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She surrounds herself with a cacophony of arrangements that draw with magpie-like voraciousness on pop, rock, reggae and indie influences.
The Irish Times

Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.

Использование термина greediness на английском
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The loss of time greediness has inflicted on us has been frightful.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone / Chiefly from his Unpubl...
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He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from ...
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She was delighted to have the excuse for satisfying her own greediness.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60
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With a greediness that could not be concealed, Hakkabut grasped them all.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
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A star glide, a single frantic sullenness, a single financial grass greediness.
Tender Buttons / Objects—Food—Rooms
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A fantastic impulse, half fear, half greediness, took possession of Jesse Bentley.
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
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Besides, in spite of her greediness, she remained so nice and good!
L'Assommoir
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But envy did it all, sir; envy, and the greediness of the land-sharks.
The Red Rover: A Tale
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There is no hurry or greediness apparent in the despatch of the meal.
American Notes
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Thomas's ill-conceived greediness she hadn't counted on, nor Miller's interest in her place.
Boston noir
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This greediness for silver was a new side in his nature.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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Then he recognized the punishment of his greediness, and began to weep aloud.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
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When the pope heard these words he actually shook all over with greediness.
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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God evidently did it to punish him for his great greediness.
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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For those English be very wolves themselves for fierceness and greediness.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Translations for greediness
каталонский
cobdícia
Greediness через время
Greediness в диалектах
Великобритания
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