greed

To Thucydides, Athenian democracy failed first to contain Sparta and then to contain its own weaknesses of faction and greed.

"His sentence should reflect the breadth and depth of his crimes, his indifference to the risks to his country, and the magnitude of his greed."

They perceive American problems with capitalism—economic inequality, rising housing prices, corrupting greed—as requiring a governmental solution.

He climbed to his feet, and his eyes narrowed with greed.

Sgt Marshall added the father and son were "purely driven by greed, without morals and demonstrating no regard for the harm they had caused".