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Another word for greed

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Noun

  1. Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves

    See also:

    give

    desire

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Sentence Examples

  • Ethics have gone out the door and greed is in.

  • He wondered if years of disappointment had driven his most trusted friend away as greed did Ne'Rin's father.

  • 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.

  • Bogha, was without the greed and ambition of his predecessors.

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