Antonyms for greed
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WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. greednoun

   Synonyms:
   rapacity, avarice, covetousness, greediness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.8 / 4 votes

1. greed

   Antonyms:
   abstemiousness, abstinence, continence, fasting, frugality, moderation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, sobriety, temperance

   Synonyms:
   drunkenness, excess, gluttony, intemperance, intoxication, reveling, revelry, self-indulgence, sensuality, wantonness

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1. • Desire

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. greednoun

   excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

   Synonyms:
   rapacity, avarice, covetousness, avaritia

2. avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritianoun

   reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

   Synonyms:
   cupidity, voracity, esurience, avariciousness, avarice, avaritia, edacity, covetousness, voraciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness

How to use greed in a sentence?

1. Charles Horton Cooley:

   It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

2. Dominique Walker:

   It shows the pure evilness of speculators, this is why we want them out of our community. They have no respect for the communities, no respect for humanity, only respect for profit and greed. This house means nothing to them.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   As we launch this campaign for president, you deserve to know where I come from — because family history heavily influences the values that we adopt as adults, today, I want to welcome you to a campaign which says, loudly and clearly, that the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, hatred and lies.

4. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Stock market fall is fake because of greed of companies promoters. Reasons like GDP data. Inflation, Fed figures American stock market fall, slowdown, recession , Repo rate are all fabricated drama to loot public invested money

5. Bernie Sanders:

   Here you have a situation with United Auto Workers is out on strike. 49,000 workers. I am sure that in that 49,000 there are family members who are seriously ill, and yet the greed of General Motors -- which has the amount of money to pay their CEO something like $ 21 million a year -- they cut off the health care benefits for those 49,000 workers, under Medicare for All, every American -- whether you're working, whether you're not working, when you are going from one job to another job -- it's there with you.

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