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greed

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Noun

reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

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Synonyms:
avarice covetousness rapacity avaritia

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