greed - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • have: She had no greed or desire for worldly objects.

Converse of subject

  • motivate: These dealers are motivated by greed, or fanaticism, or both.
  • drive: The media coverage painted a picture of Chinese driven by greed coming to England to make money.
  • fuel: AW reply to this comment Is enterprise fueled by greed?

Adjective modifier

  • insatiable: The super-exploitation of the munitions workers to feed the insatiable greed for profits of the war mongering factory owners.
  • unbridled: This, dare I say it, seems to me an example of unbridled greed?
  • unadulterated: Information center's internet to make random so you'll just unadulterated greed and.
  • selfish: The emphasis has sadly shifted from public service to selfish greed.
  • naked: And in third place, again represented by a naked greed fat suit, was supermarket giant Tesco.
  • corporate: There is too much corporate greed in the world, much to my shame, is in the US.

Noun used with modifier

  • term: Banks will ultimately end up with the bad debts in the medium term due to short term greed.
  • material: Discipleship demands the renunciation of possessiveness ( Luke 14:33 ), of the material greed which causes so much human deprivation and environmental destruction.

Possessives

  • everyone: Gandhi spoke of " enough for everyone's need, not for everyone's greed.
  • man: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Preposition: of

  • man: Beside the trade in this meat, we are slaughtering some of the world's rarest creatures simply to appease the greed of man.
  • company: Or was it the greed of the big oil companies?

Preposition: for

  • profit: Or perhaps simply greed for the potential profits the test kits would provide.
  • gold: They introduced horses into the plains of North America and the greed for gold into Mexico and Peru.
  • oil: The people of our region now associate the term " democracy " with western greed for oil and incessant interventions in our internal affairs.
  • power: They are a symptom of Britain's greed for power.

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