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Another word for greed

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greed

n.

greediness, avidity, selfishness, eagerness, avarice, voracity, excess, rapacity, gluttony, piggishness, indulgence, hoggishness, gourmandism, ravenousness, avariciousness, voraciousness, niggardliness, acquisitiveness, intemperance, cupidity, graspingness, covetousness, desire, grabbiness*, an itching palm*, taking ways*.

Antonyms generosity*, liberality, munificence.

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Another word for greed

noun

Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves:

acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, graspingness. (Informal) grabbiness. See desire, give

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He wondered if years of disappointment had driven his most trusted friend away as greed did Ne'Rin's father.
Ethics have gone out the door and greed is in.
Bogha, was without the greed and ambition of his predecessors.
Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.
The other features noted in the epistle, their turbulence, drunkenness and greed, all happen to be verified in the pages of ancient writers like Polybius.

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