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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
| Synonyms: | avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
| Antonyms: | generosity, philanthropy |
ər| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
Example Sentences
- Somehow, readers are left with the impression that the stooge is always a victim of his own avarice or stupidity.
- She turned away and bent over the tea chest again, cleanly stabbed by avarice, like a peach with a silver knife.
- Usually, politics is about the avarice of one person or group in conflict .
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, greediness, voracity |
| Main Entry: | avidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness |
| Synonyms: | avarice, cupidity, enthusiasm, fervor, greediness, intense desire, longing |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference |
| Main Entry: | mammon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth as evil |
| Synonyms: | avarice, gain, possessions, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
| Antonyms: | generosity |
| Main Entry: | acquisitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, possessiveness |
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