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greed
noun
(greed)
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
avarice
,
avaritia
,
covetousness
,
rapacity
,
greed
noun
(greed)
excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Words Related to
greed
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avarice
,
rapacity
,
covetousness
,
avaritia
,
thirst
,
ambition
,
desire
,
hunger
,
appetite
,
avidity
,
thirsty
,
profit
,
bait
,
gaming
,
sed
,
breeding
,
gain
,
sigh
,
anticorruption
,
esurience
,
selfishness
,
greediness
,
hubris
,
gluttony
,
arrogance
,
egotism
,
cupidity
,
irresponsibility
,
stupidity
,
venality
,
recklessness
,
lust
,
deceit
,
rapaciousness
,
capitalism
,
immorality
,
wickedness
,
opportunism
,
hypocrisy
,
ignorance
,
jealousy
,
dishonesty
,
foolishness
,
consumerism
,
megalomania
,
laziness
,
egoism
,
meanness
,
incompetence
,
cowardice
,
narcissism
,
callousness
,
egomania
,
depravity
,
cronyism
,
acquisitiveness
,
perversity
,
miserliness
,
vindictiveness
,
pleonexia
,
profiteering
,
knavery
,
irrationality
,
edacity
,
unscrupulousness
,
pigheadedness
,
materialism
,
improvidence
,
corruptness
,
rottenness
,
corporatism
,
capitalists
,
cynicism
,
shamelessness
,
hoggery
,
plutocracy
,
slothfulness
,
altruism
,
gullibility
,
egocentrism
,
excesses
,
heartlessness
,
rascality
,
shortsightedness
,
malfeasance
,
amorality
,
mammon
,
careerism
,
cravenness
,
idiocy
,
machiavellianism
,
mendacity
,
duplicity
,
oligarchy
,
suicism
,
wrongheadedness
,
rapine
,
malignity
,
kleptocracy
,
populism
,
greed
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