greed
Example Sentences
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Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.
“You should have more respect for fear. It’s the engine in all your human history, fear. Fear, married to greed, married to power.”
From Literature
Fear and a little greed made for an emotional market.
From Barron's
When we pointed out the labor contract’s job casualties last fall, Mr. O’Brien accused us in a letter of attacking him “by name to distract from the Teamsters’ success of reining in corporate greed.”
Deron Wagner, founder and CEO of Morpheus Trading Group, has adopted a psychology-first methodology to the stock market that prioritizes mastering emotions — fear, greed, hope and regret — before learning technical analysis.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
