greediness often defeats its own ends, by making us scratch for every trifle when we should dig for gold alone. From LearnThat.org. [Unknown.]
The greediness of lawyers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The hypocrisy lies in greediness wrapped with ethos of capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Orszag: 'We've stepped back' from economic 'free fall'] Reference
This whole “corp. america” greediness is the root of all evil line is misguided. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The Attack Dog Presidency] Reference
The hypocrisy with these groups lies in greediness wrapped with ethos of capitalism or the so called free market!!? belive me there is nothing ln the world called free market. From Wordnik.com. ['None of this is easy,' Obama aide says of health care reform] Reference
St. Augustin calls the greediness of his youth a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
A little of that instinctive greediness, which is common to primitive and uncultured man. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
There was nothing of the idea of greediness that each man knew he himself felt after a fast. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice in the Wilderness] Reference
This might translate into material greediness, which is what we usually understand 'greed' to mean. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
I think greediness is a kind of disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son] Reference
Note that the meanings don't change, just the "greediness". From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Russ tells him that he has to tell Nancy about his "greediness". From Wordnik.com. [AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
This modifier inverts the "greediness" of the quantifiers so that they are not greedy by default, but become greedy if followed by "?". From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
Uncleanness and greediness of gain often go hand in hand (Eph 5: 3, 5; Col 3: 5); though "greediness" here includes all kinds of self-seeking. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
"Ye acts like ye loves me," was her seriously voiced response, "but somehow thar seems ter be a kind of greediness erbout hit. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
England -- wishes to satisfy his selfish greediness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
His eyes glistened with greediness, as I anticipated. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I lose sight in my greediness that in my stomach cold accumulates. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Everybody took the risk, and it all had to do with short-term greediness. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Cramer’s Mad, Mad World] Reference
I warn you, Bella, not to let your greediness make Susan know you as you are. From Wordnik.com. [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference
For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will turn to choler. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
The failures in stock speculating are caused mainly by ignorance and greediness. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Stock Speculation] Reference
At last, however, the greediness of Lovat was appeased if not satisfied by a present from. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
La Fontaine's huntsman, he had been insatiable, and his greediness brought its own punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
So, with all their greediness, these wretched people remained as poor and as miserable as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
"'The camel wanted to have horns, so he lost his ears for his greediness'," he quoted in Hebrew. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
Tripoli, to encounter fresh troubles, leaving Eaton alone to bear the greediness and insolence of Tunis. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Then comes petty greediness to have something; and no one is pettier than old men whom you give the "wei.". From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
She positively wanted to pass back one or two of the saucers for refilling, but was ashamed of her greediness. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
There is something about stock speculation that appeals to the greediness and pure gambling instincts of people. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Stock Speculation] Reference
I lose my self respect, but satisfy my voracity, which has the effect of improving the greediness out of my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
One wouldn't grudge them a few cherries now and again; but to clear the trees as they do is downright greediness, I say. From Wordnik.com. [Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.] Reference
It was these smaller firms that President Obama lacerated last week, blaming them for greediness that prevented a better deal. From Wordnik.com. [Bond. Lame Bond.] Reference
In some it shows itself as pride; in others as envy, greediness, jealousy, covetousness, procrastination, indolence, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough] Reference
He was a larger dog than I, but not nearly so strong, being grown helpless and unwieldly through long habits of greediness and laziness. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
Amongst the Germans there was not less agitation, from hopes of victory, greediness of spoil, and the opposite counsels of their leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Only the young short grass uprears itself, and, drinking in with eager greediness the welcome but angry shower, refuses to bend its neck beneath the yoke. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Pale moonbeams light her way as, with her gown uplifted, she wanders from bed to bed, and with a dainty greediness drinks in the honeyed breathings round her. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
When I had finished, he rose angrily: "What, wretch!" he exclaimed, "dost thou even dare to impute a crime which thou hast committed from greediness to another?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
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