[ UK /ɡɹˈiːd/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹid/ ]
NOUN
  1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
  2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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How To Use greed In A Sentence

  • The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space. Times, Sunday Times
  • He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
  • I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on. Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
  • During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling. The Sun
  • NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
  • It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
  • All who disagreed openly were barred from the radical teach-in at the public school.
  • A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth.
  • It was settled when incoming workers agreed to work permanent night shifts.
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