greediness
- a word derived from greedy.
Example Sentences
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Greediness, technology, and industry are often bad in our popular stories.
From Forbes • Jun. 5, 2014
Appetite, Desire, Anger, Lust, Greediness, Envy, Malice, impel him to courses which are vicious.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
Make no Shew of taking great Delight in your Victuals, Feed not with Greediness; cut your Bread with a Knife, lean not on the Table neither find fault with what you Eat.
From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Conway, Moncure Daniel
Greediness of gain seems to have been his besetting sin.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
One writer says of the planters:— "Their manner of living is most generous and open: strangers are sought after with Greediness to be invited."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
