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• If we unbridle our greed and lust we will be nothing but animals.From the entry unbridle
• As it is, however, climate denial is rooted in greed, opportunism, and ego.2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A22. From the entry climate denial
• Freedom from greed unties the knot of greedful actions, but does not diminish our capacity to act.2014, Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry greedful
• We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life.2010, Nuala O'Faolain, “An Ugly Little War”, in A More Complex Truth. From the entry materialism
• We must rise above our needs, our self-interest, our greed, our hunger.2010, Michael E. Gerber, The Most Successful Small Business in The World: The Ten Principles, page 118. From the entry rise above
• So much of our culture's unpeace arises because of greed, our proliferating needs and wants.2001, Marva J. Dawn, Karen Dismer, Morning by Morning. From the entry unpeace
• Aflood in riches from its many successful conquests, Rome became a festering swamp of greed and corruption.1993, Let’s Go, Inc., “Ancient Rome”, in Kayla Alpert, David Thorpe, editors, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Rome 1993, New York, N.Y.: St.…. From the entry aflood
• Our nation has experienced a bonfire of the vanities based on the greed of the high establishment.1991, Proceedings of the AFL-CIO Convention, page 196. From the entry bonfire of the vanities
• It’s all greed all over again, the greed of the Jews,” Kelly said.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, page 298. From the entry shonnicker
• My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed.1931, Virginia Woolf, The London scene. From the entry unseemlily
• True, greed is still a major factor in anti-environmentalism.2023 August 7, Paul Krugman, “Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue”, in The New York Times. From the entry antienvironmentalism
• To feed the greed of the richlings?2014, Snakes and Ladders, page 265. From the entry richling
• Warfare is a condition in which there is more greed and more grievance, more deterrence and more defiance.2010, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Michael Cookson, Anomie and Violence, →ISBN. From the entry grievance
• Greed will get players to do interesting things.2010, Scott Rogers, “More Wealth Than You Can Imagine!”, in Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, Chichester, West Sussex…. From the entry grindy
• It is good old unregulated American greed of the same stripe that drove this country into its current economic meltdown.2009 August 10, Joseph L. Galloway, “What the US needs is an outburst of common sense”, in JuneauEmpire.com, retrieved 23 Feb 2013. From the entry of the same stripe
• The era of necocon greed, fearmonging and warmongering is over.2006 November 11, Adam Albright, “Real Conservatives”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022. From the entry fearmonging
• But why do police become grass-eaters at all, if they lack the greed and contempt fo decency necessary to become meat-eaters?2002, Edwin J. Delattre, Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing, American Enterprise Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79. From the entry grass-eater
• The greed that many players show tarnishes the game.1991 April 7, “Players' Greed Tarnishes Game”, in The New York Times. From the entry tarnish
• Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil).1974 November 11, Paul Gray, “Books: Notable: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 342 Pages. Houghton Mifflin. $8.95. [review]”, in Time, New…. From the entry moral compass
• Also, when she wolves a sandwich—a peasant greed and sort of pious righteousness, as if “Food is Good For You.1957 July 4, Dawn Powell, edited by Tim Page, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, published…. From the entry wolve
• For such legalists as the Pharisees, however, the law wasn’t kept out of love for God or man, but out of greed and fear.2017, Tompaul Wheeler, “To Kill a Mocking Son: Part 2”, in God Space: Daily Devotions for Teens; From All about Me to All about Thee…. From the entry lawkeeping
• Obviously, birds are very vulnerable to human persecution at such passage sites, where hecatombs of raptors fall victim every year to human greed or pleasure.1961, The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship. From the entry fall victim
• Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Via Dolorosa”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911…. From the entry ghoulish
• Millionaires’ Ex-Wives Club posed the question of whether women pursuing ex-husbands for extraordinary amounts of superextraordinary fortunes are greed personified or simply demanding what is rightfully theirs.2018 January 18, Lucy Mangan, “‘Millionaires’ Ex-Wives Club review – It’s all about the money or is it?”, in www.theguardian.com, archived…. From the entry superextraordinary
• Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed.2009, V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry prisoner of hope
• The original script is a complicated farrago of intertwined greed and lust, with marriages being planned and hearts being broken in order to accumulate fortunes as well as romance.2005 November 7, Toronto Star. From the entry farrago
• The book of Judges invites us to ask ourselves whether the same greed and self-centeredness that has produced our superaffluence is not also systematically teaching us to be violent.2001, J. Clinton McCann, "Judges 4:1-7", Roger E. Van Harn (editor), The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 1, "The Old Testament and Acts: The…. From the entry superaffluence
• When the people's champ gives us the dope on corporate bosses and sweatshop kings, he never presents their greed as some kind of deplorable personal trait.2000 August 7, Robert Newman, “Performers of the world unite”, in The Guardian. From the entry dope
• Her descriptions of the greed and lawlessness of the California frontier feel perfunctory and secondhand, as do her predictable paeans to the opportunities afforded immigrants by the United States.1999 November 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: A Single Girl Takes On the California Frontier”, in The New York Times (E…. From the entry paean
• Events come to be significant as instances above all of something that can be named: generation gaps, compassion fatigues, capitalist greed, welfare cheating, road rage, and so on.1997, Kenneth R. Minogue, The Silencing of Society: The True Cost of the Lust for News, page 28. From the entry compassion fatigue
• You two sit down, and I'll map it out for you.” For the next fifteen minutes I told them a tale of greed, racism, treachery and murder.1992, Roy Maynard, 38 Caliber: An Emerson Dunn Mystery, page 127. From the entry map out
• The stupidity, parochialism, and greed in the international mismanagement of the whole nuclear challenge should not tempt us to misimagine the circumstances of the bomb's first “use.”1990, Paul Fussell, Killing, in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays, page 36. From the entry misimagine
• She was, however, sensible of attention and kindness, and would occasionally smile to her nurses, or smackingly kiss them in a manner as explosive as her greeds and rages.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry smackingly
• Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).1963, B. A. Saletore, Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions, Asia Publishing House, page 318. From the entry overjoy
• If modern Javanese table manners are still nearly the same as those prevailing in 14th-century Majapahit, finishing the plates was considered unmannerly and an indication of greed.1962, Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud, “The Annual Court Festival in Majapahit”, in Java in the 14th Century: A Study in Cultural History: The…. From the entry unmannerly
• First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him."1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing. From the entry strutter

Meaning of greed

1. noun A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
2. verb To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.
3. verb To play greedily or aggressively in a high-risk, high-reward scenario.

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Questions about greed in a sentence

How do you use greed in a sentence?

Greed is used as a noun and verb. For example: “His greed was his undoing.”

What is a short sentence with greed?

“His greed was his undoing.”

What does greed mean?

Greed means a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.