What's the difference between gleed and greed?

Gleed


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Through gleeding into the lung parenchyma is responsible for morbidity and mortality in patients with leukaemia pulmonary haemorrhage is seldom diagnosed during life.

Greed


Definition:

  • (n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
  • (2) Darth Sidious – instrumentally paranoid in the service of greed – is more like Herod than Hitler.
  • (3) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
  • (4) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
  • (5) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (6) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
  • (7) But Margaret Thatcher's government was full of bankers, and Blair says nothing about boardroom greed or abuses of corporate power.
  • (8) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
  • (9) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (10) "Greed," he told shareholders, "will save not only Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
  • (11) Let’s clean out the manure-filled stables of a political system that has become characterized by greed,” he wrote in his online declaration .
  • (12) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
  • (13) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
  • (14) Rather, the problem was the post-Soviet culture of greed, fear and cynicism that Putin encouraged and exploited," she wrote in New Republic .
  • (15) This is conscious greed, plain and simple.” David Lammy (@DavidLammy) Today Premier League clubs signed a new TV deal worth £5.1 billion.
  • (16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (17) "We won't allow greed and recklessness to ever again endanger the whole global economy and the lives of millions of people."
  • (18) Unfortunately, market forces and greed usually beat out good intentions.
  • (19) Let's be clear, RMT wants to see the entire rail network taken back into public ownership, closing the door on two decades of greed and exploitation.
  • (20) The charges announced today describe a securities fraud trifecta of lies, deceit, and greed.

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