(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.
Hoggery
Definition:
(n.) Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.