[
UK
/ɡɹˈiːd/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹid/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹid/ ]
NOUN
- excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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.