Definitions
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Word origin
c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.
Used in a sentence
“His greed was his undoing.”
“Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.”
“She does not display voracities and greeds like a number of patients […] nor has she shown any significant tendency to possessiveness, grievance, paranoia, or mania.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Excessive desire”5 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
G____