greed

CEFRC1

/ɡɹiːd/

noun

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A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

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His greed was his undoing.
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.
This conniving bastard has greeded the farm off an old man and I end up with nothing.

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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.
1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194
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.
1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XI, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book XI (The Norman Schemer, and the Norwegian Sea-king), page 218
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.
1885, Sir Richard Francis Burton, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights
This conniving bastard has greeded the farm off an old man and I end up with nothing.
2008, Leonard Warwick, The Unspoken, page 284
[…]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."
1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564

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c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.