greed
Example Sentences
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"It's been crowded like this for the last couple of states," he told those in attendance, urging listeners to avoid "chasing materialism" and to abandon thoughts of greed, anger and hatred.
From Barron's
It seems like more greed than fear the past several weeks, though.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
