greed
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //ɡɹiːd//
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
noun
- 1
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
His greed was his undoing.
[…]But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, "Thou deserveth all that betideth thee. All this is decreed to me of Allah (whose name be exalted!), to turn me from my greed of gain, whence ariseth all that I endure, for I have wealth galore."
Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
She does not display voracities and greeds like a number of patients […] nor has she shown any significant tendency to possessiveness, grievance, paranoia, or mania.
Etymology
c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.
verb
- 1
To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.
The ravens sit greeding, / And watching, and heeding: / Thoro' wind, over water, / Comes scent of the slaughter, / And ravens sit greeding / Their share of the bones.
Hearing these words he arose, because indeed he greeded for her, and came up behind her as she rested upon her elbows and knees and bending in hand his prickle nailed it into her coynte and did manly devoir.
This conniving bastard has greeded the farm off an old man and I end up with nothing.
Forms
- plural
- greeds
- past tense
- greeded
- past participle
- greeded
- present participle
- greeding
- third person singular
- greeds
greed · A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
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