as in avarice
an intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions
don't let greed for riches control you
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Recent Examples of greed
For others, the salary cap proposal demonstrates pure greed from owners who are all fabulously wealthy yet perennially crying poor.
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David Faris, TheWeek, 15 June 2026
The most heartbreaking toll that war, disease, greed, and bigotry, all of these things, the greatest toll comes to the children.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
Trump has opened our eyes to the consequences of extreme greed, corruption, cruelty, and utter disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
But the 1993 prehistory-meets-futuristic technology thriller was already edging into darker territory as dazzling scientific innovation collided with corporate greed, hubris and industrial sabotage, and awe made way for fear.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
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David Faris, TheWeek, 15 June 2026
The most heartbreaking toll that war, disease, greed, and bigotry, all of these things, the greatest toll comes to the children.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
Trump has opened our eyes to the consequences of extreme greed, corruption, cruelty, and utter disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
But the 1993 prehistory-meets-futuristic technology thriller was already edging into darker territory as dazzling scientific innovation collided with corporate greed, hubris and industrial sabotage, and awe made way for fear.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greed
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And the forces that contributed to their demise — avarice, ignorance and a lack of imagination — are ascendant, illustrated by plans for a five-story Rolex shop on Las Olas and the Gekko district being built in downtown West Palm Beach.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2026
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These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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People in the comments shared in the woman’s frustration, agreeing that her mother's greediness needs to be addressed.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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When kids didn’t withdraw, it was sometimes seen as greediness.—
Mary Frances Ruskell,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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Many critics of such wanton cosmic acquisitiveness balk at the idea of scarcely regulated private-sector lunar strip-mining.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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Following too closely in its protagonist’s footsteps, The Queen of Versailles presents only two options — tough but spiritually fulfilling material deprivation or unconstrained acquisitiveness.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Most accounts of the era blame greed—a new ethic of cupidity that displaced whatever youthful idealism remained from the 1960s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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The stories of corporate cupidity and stupidity are perhaps more relevant now with technology discrupting markets.—
Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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At the heart of the dispute is the ability of the NCAA, as a national member organization, to apply and enforce eligibility and gambling rules that protect the integrity of sports, the responsibilities of a conference to its members and a school’s desire to win.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 June 2026
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The desire to make connections won’t go away.—
Avni Trivedi,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Simple fasting from food can be ruined — rendered not pleasing to Allah — if spoiled by telling lies, slander, denouncing someone behind his back, swearing a false oath, greed or covetousness.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
17 Feb. 2026
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Some laud the nation’s rapaciousness.—
Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
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“Greed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greed. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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