Synonyms for greed
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1. greednoun

   Synonyms:
   rapacity, avarice, covetousness, greediness

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1. greed

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

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

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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

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1. • Desire

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1. greednoun

   Synonyms:
   eagerness, longing, GREEDINESS

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1. List of paraphrases for "greed":

   avidity, avarice, rapacity

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1. List of known nicknames for "Greed":

   Welton LeJeune, Tobias Wirz

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1. James Scott:

   Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   To greed, all nature is insufficient.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   There is in my view massive dissatisfaction in this country today with corporate establishment and the greed of corporate America.

4. William Jefferson Clinton:

   I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.

5. Betsy Brantner Smith:

   ’ Gun manufacturer greed ’ does n’t fuel gun crime any more than ‘ motor vehicle company greed ’ fuels DUI crashes and fatalities, people who do n’t feel safe are n’t free. And Americans are starting to realize that their freedoms are at stake because their freedom to shop in their neighborhood and walk their child to school safety and so many of those things are being hampered by out of control violent crime.