greed
(noun)
noun
1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Definition categories: attribute, desire
2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Similar word(s): avarice, covetousness, rapacity
Definition categories: act
Sentences with greed as a noun:
- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.