Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
greed .
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Examples
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Much of what plagues our country is our inability to think beyond ourselves and our own needs/greeds.
Obama Calls for National Day of Service - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Much of what plagues our country is our inability to think beyond ourselves and our own needs/greeds.
Obama Calls for National Day of Service - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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At different times in our history, different companies rise and fall, depending on the needs and greeds of the times.
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A starting point for a spiritual warrior is to love the conditions, the darker aspect of yourself, call it the "ego", fears, doubts, greeds, angers, animosities.
Anne Naylor: Why President Obama Gets My Vote As A Spiritual Warrior 2009
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The politicans and corporate greeds blame us for buying houses – but take no blame for outsourcing our jobs, so we can keep making payments on our homes.
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You reveal all their false and bogus slogans by which they cover their aggressive intentions and greeds against peoples and nations.
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Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds.
Woman and Labour 2003
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We used the religion to justify our greeds and our aggressions so we fail the religion.
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Just a small band of older black men and women, a group characterized less by malice or calculation than by fear and small greeds.
Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995
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The ending of the town, and this march to a new life; the long days on the road, the shared effort, the petty jealousies and greeds but also the sharing of a great adventure --- all of this she throws into it.
Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994
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