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Wiktionary4.0 / 3 votes

  1. greednoun

    Synonyms:
    rapacity, avarice, covetousness, greediness

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.5 / 2 votes

  1. greednoun

    Synonyms:
    eagerness, longing, GREEDINESS

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "greed":

    avidity, avarice, rapacity

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Greed":

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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. Bernie Sanders:

    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.

  3. Bernie Sanders:

    This week marks a victory for patients with LEMS and American taxpayers, and a blow to the greed of Big Pharma, suffering patients used to receive life-saving medication for free from Jacobus Pharmaceuticals -- until a competitor, Catalyst, bought the rights to the drug, received market exclusivity, and started charging $ 375,000 a year to those in desperate need.

  4. Josh Shapiro:

    This apparent settlement is a slap in the face to everyone who has had to bury a loved one due to this family's destruction and greed. It allows the Sackler family to walk away billionaires and admit no wrongdoing.

  5. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

    The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.


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