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Noun
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Intense and selfish desire for something, esp. wealth, power, or food,
  1. Intense and selfish desire for something, esp. wealth, power, or food


  1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
  2. avarice: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  3. (greedy) avaricious: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile ...
  4. (greedy) avid: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"
  5. (greedy) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"
  6. This page is a list of episodes for the British television programme 2point4 children.
  7. Greed is the sixth album by the New York band Swans. It features slightly more melodic and dark sounds than the very brutal noise rock the band was known for playing. Certain tracks utilize drum machines, the lead instrument on "Fool" is a grand piano, and "Money Is Flesh" uses a synthesizer.
  8. Greed is the second album by Ambitious Lovers.
  9. Greed is a dice game for two or more players, using six six-sided dice. The object of the game is to be the first to achieve a score of 10,000 points or more. "Greed" is also known as "Stugots" and "Zilch" in some circles. ...
  10. The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of the most objectionable vices that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning (immoral) fallen humanity's tendency to sin. ...
  11. Greed (1924) is a dramatic silent film. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Joan Standing and Jack Curtis.
  12. The Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga series feature a large number of fictional characters created by Hiromu Arakawa. The story is set in a fictional universe within the 20th Century in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man. ...
  13. (greedy) Having greed; consumed by selfish desires; Tending to match as much text as possible
  14. (greedy) A subpattern whose quantifier wants to match as many things as possible.
  15. (GREEDY) awesomeness!! :)... »
  16. (Greedy) Business: Business that survives without government welfare
  17. (Greedy) Said of a young shoot which harms neighbouring twigs by diverting sap for itself.
  18. (Greedy) When a player takes a risky move that they can’t necessarily support in the hopes that they aren’t punished because of it. If left unpunished, they help the player get ahead.
  19. (Greedy) When you play a card, you may destroy an item.
  20. (greedy) cut, malköz, qırs, qızģanç
  21. (greedy) wertwert, wutjbin, no-wertwert-da
  22. The emotion that drives food-stamp recipients.
  23. One of the seven chief features, or stumbling blocks. Its positive pole is egotism; its negative pole is voracity. It is caused by a fear of not having enough of a particular thing, such as money, food, sex, or attention.
  24. a consistent desire to have more or demand the best without regard to need.
  25. The immoral desire to gleefully accumulate vast personal and corporate Wealth by depriving the Poor of the money they so desperately need.  Wealth is a natural resource, like air or water, and everyone is equally entitled to a fair share, but no more. ...