0 a very strong wish to continuously get more of something, especially food or money:
I don't know why I'm eating more - it's not hunger, it's just greed!
He was unsympathetic with many house sellers, complaining that they were motivated by greed.
1 a strong desire to continually get more of something, esp. money:
Together they formed the impetus for greed and corruption, not democratic cohesion.
For such a thought, like prayer, is easily contaminated by greed, obsessions, fears and self-destructive impulses.
First, if greed for office motivated the choice of a nominating strategy, then overnomination should have been general among the parties.
Fear, greed, ambition or ignorance prevented other observers at court from making such a record.
And then there is greed, which can be camouflaged under reasons that seem to be acceptable justifications.
Against a background of corporate greed and malfeasance, a renewed focus on transparency and accountability is or seems to be permeating the business world.
Revivalists thought the church bureaucracy was simply an excuse for elders' greed.
The cunning speculator who places bets on the victims' greed or gullibility has consequently received more attention than perhaps more exculpable, less glamorous, moral vacillators.
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(尤指对食物或钱财的)贪婪,贪心,贪欲…
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