greed

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.

Spanish ambition and greed for gold knew no bounds. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson
[295] Wolf: Frequently used by Dante as symbolical of greed. — The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
And the senators knew that their greed had been their ruin. — The Violet Fairy Book, Andrew Lang

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