greed
Example Sentences
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I don’t know how you legislate against greed.
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon
American business and Silicon Valley, in particular, are littered with classic beefs fueled by ambition, greed and green-eyed jealousy: the late Steve Jobs vs.
The sort of days that make you want to raid Mr. McGregor’s garden not out of greed, but out of hunger for green.
From Salon
“Oh, Hadel, you worry too much. There is no greed or pride in this, only beauty.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
