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greed
noun as in overwhelming desire for more
Strong matches
acquisitiveness, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, indulgence, intemperance, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, voracity
Weak matches
gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, swinishness, the gimmies
Example Sentences
"Greed can be a powerful motive, and I consider there was substantial greed here," said Mr Justice Baker.
Outraged Filipinos have been stitching together AI videos of lawmakers as crocodiles, a symbol of greed.
"I know it has bad connotations on the men's side with greed and all those things, but in women's football it's a necessity until we have decent commercial resources available."
It was she who often led the charge against the succession of Conservatives who got into trouble over their own complicated financial arrangements, hurling accusations of arrogance and greed on a fairly regular basis.
It read "Our game is about glory, Levy's game is about greed", while another was "24 years, 16 managers, 1 trophy - time for change".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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