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The miser behind the table with the gold coins and jewels personifies the Avaritia or 'greed'. The allegorical figures next to him represent the things that fuel his longing for gold, such as precious clothes and beautiful women. Behind the miser is a devil.
The miser behind the table with the gold coins and jewels personifies the Avaritia or 'greed'. The allegorical figures next to him represent the things that fuel his longing for gold, such as precious clothes and beautiful women. Behind the miser is a devil.
  1. (n) greed
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  2. (n) greed
    excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Illustrations
Design drawing for the print with Greed is trying to catch up with Fortuna. Representation of all sorts of understanding among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind traders on foot and in carriages plunges from a cliff into the abyss in pursuit of Fortune. At the top a portrait of John Law with an empty banderole. With some inscriptions in pen in the depiction. For print 56 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720. Design for a print.
Design drawing for the print with Greed is trying to catch up with Fortuna. Representation of all sorts of understanding among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind traders on foot and in carriages plunges from a cliff into the abyss in pursuit of Fortune. At the top a portrait of John Law with an empty banderole. With some inscriptions in pen in the depiction. For print 56 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720. Design for a print.
In a niche is the personification of Greed as an old woman. She has a filled pouch in her right hand and a few money pouches on her left wrist.
In a niche is the personification of Greed as an old woman. She has a filled pouch in her right hand and a few money pouches on her left wrist.
The Iron Age: Man faces disaster, greed and malice. Armed soldiers loot and attack innocent people. A city is burning in the background. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
The Iron Age: Man faces disaster, greed and malice. Armed soldiers loot and attack innocent people. A city is burning in the background. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
Achilles accuses King Agamemnon of greed. The king then demands his slave girl Briseis. The wise Nestor mediates in the conflict. In the background, Apollo sends the plague on the Greek camp. In the margin a caption in French.
Achilles accuses King Agamemnon of greed. The king then demands his slave girl Briseis. The wise Nestor mediates in the conflict. In the background, Apollo sends the plague on the Greek camp. In the margin a caption in French.
Allegory of the wrong world and the reward of greed for money and laziness. In the center is a donkey shitting gold pieces like a little donkey. His rider sits on his back in an inverted position and holds a 'Judenspiess' in his hand. Citizens from all classes come to collect the gold pieces. With German caption denouncing the Christians for their desire for wealth and the Jews for their usurious interest. (Depicted Jews can be recognized by circle on mantle).
Allegory of the wrong world and the reward of greed for money and laziness. In the center is a donkey shitting gold pieces like a little donkey. His rider sits on his back in an inverted position and holds a 'Judenspiess' in his hand. Citizens from all classes come to collect the gold pieces. With German caption denouncing the Christians for their desire for wealth and the Jews for their usurious interest. (Depicted Jews can be recognized by circle on mantle).
Sheet with 8 images of a shopkeeper who falls victim to his greed. He buys a violin that he thinks is a Stradivarius. That later turns out to be a trap. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 13. - No. 19.
Sheet with 8 images of a shopkeeper who falls victim to his greed. He buys a violin that he thinks is a Stradivarius. That later turns out to be a trap. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: Série 13. - No. 19.
Cartoon of the greed and wealth of the Catholic clergy. A number of monks press coins from the body of Christ. At the bottom a 16-line French verse.
Cartoon of the greed and wealth of the Catholic clergy. A number of monks press coins from the body of Christ. At the bottom a 16-line French verse.
An interior of a house. Seated at a table are King Midas, personifying foolishness and greed, and the feminine personification of Wealth. Midas is counting his money, while a jester, the personification of Foolishness, sets him up with a fool. Wealth looks at her reflection in a mirror and sees an old woman. A lady with the head of a boar pours her wine. Another woman with a parrot on her arm waves her cool with a fan (she personifies artificial praise or flattery).
An interior of a house. Seated at a table are King Midas, personifying foolishness and greed, and the feminine personification of Wealth. Midas is counting his money, while a jester, the personification of Foolishness, sets him up with a fool. Wealth looks at her reflection in a mirror and sees an old woman. A lady with the head of a boar pours her wine. Another woman with a parrot on her arm waves her cool with a fan (she personifies artificial praise or flattery).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Greed
    grēd" An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) greed
    An excessively eager desire to possess something, especially wealth; avaricious desire; especially, coarse and brutal avarice.
  2. (n) greed
    A greedy person.
  3. (n) greed
    Synonyms Greediness, Greed; eagerness, avidity. Greediness is used either literally or figuratively, as greediness for food, greediness for favors, applause, knowledge; greed has now lost its literal sense, and is rarely used except for avarice and in such phrases as greed of gain, greed of wealth, greed of gold.
  4. greed
    To cry; cry out; call.
  5. (n) greed
    A pondweed (Potamogeton in several species): usually in plural.
  6. (n) greed
    plural Straw used to make manure in a farm-yard.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Greed
    an eager desire or longing: covetousness
Quotations
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
Ivan F. Boesky
Bill Clinton
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
Bill Clinton
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
Milton Friedman
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman
For greed all nature is too little.
Seneca
Garrison Keillor
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Akin to Goth. grēdus, hunger, Icel. grāðr,. √34. See Greedy.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. grǽdig; Dut. gretig.

Usage in the news

This is still about greed. philly.com

The whole mantra of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that 99% of the people in this country are fed up with the greed, entitlement, and corruption of the wealthiest 1. kmmsam.com

Money and greed are trumping citizen rights and needs to travel those routes without being bombarded by dangerously distracting, glitzy and brightly-lit freeway signs. lincolnnewsmessenger.com

Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement launched to fight corporate greed and corruption, is now buying up peoples' debts and forgiving them. 4029tv.com

Steer Clear of Gas Pump Greed. msnbc.msn.com

Politicians are urging New York drivers to steer clear of fear and greed at the pump. msnbc.msn.com

Can the greed get worse . mountainhomenews.com

Can their greed get any worse. mountainhomenews.com

Compassion trumps greed in US vote. thestar.com

Here's the poster boy for cold, heartless, selfish greed . eveningtribune.com

Thoughts on corporate greed . montereyherald.com

If Greed Were a Twinkie, I'd Eat It. urbantulsa.com

Letters Kansas DMV, Royals, Thanksgiving greed . kansascity.com

Political climate is due to Republican greed . blog.al.com

Elderly woman falls prey to caregiver's greed . albanyherald.com

Usage in scientific papers

Once the proper space-time greed is given it is immediately clear that the long bursts are generated at distances of 4 × 1016 cm from the EMBH.
Observational tests of the Electro-Magnetic Black Hole Theory in Gamma-Ray Bursts

For Brillouin zone integration we sum up a k-space greed of 512 points in the irreducible part of the Brillouin zone. A cutoff of lmax = 8 for the multipole expansion of the charge density and a cutoff of lmax = 3 for the wave functions was used.
Nonquasiparticle states in half-metallic ferromagnet NiMnSb

Two of them are situated on islands: Manhattan (with an almost regular greed-like city plan) and the network of Venice canals (imprinting the joined effect of natural, political, and economical factors acted on the network during many centuries).
Random Walks Along the Streets and Canals in Compact Cities: Spectral analysis, Dynamical Modularity, Information, and Statistical Mechanics

Fear and greed often lead to over-reactions and possible panics when the sentiments become negative, triggering herd selling which self-fulfills the very fears at their origin (Veldkamp, 2005).
How to grow a bubble: A model of myopic adapting agents

The two algorithms find the same solution, but the basic greed y algorithm needs to recompute the gain for all edges uninterdicted edges at every iteration, while the priority algorithm can exploit fast initialization and stale computational values.
Optimal Interdiction of Unreactive Markovian Evaders

Usage in literature

And all this was to sate the greed of greedy men who hide behind the veil of vengeance! "Darkwater" by W. E. B. Du Bois

His one passion was the greed of power, heightened by the lust for blood. "Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)" by John Addington Symonds

And when the wickedness and greed of the wooers was made known to her, Athene grew very angry. "Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)" by Various

Excitement, greed, appetite were rife in them. "The Rustlers of Pecos County" by Zane Grey

Greed packed the great ones equally with the small. "American Merchant Ships and Sailors" by Willis J. Abbot

Greed is swifter than a greyhound. "Wise or Otherwise" by Lydia Leavitt

It was untainted by greed. "The Judge" by Rebecca West

And in his wake men, whose eyes fairly bulged with the greed of gold, jammed their outfits into packs and headed into the North. "The Gun-Brand" by James B. Hendryx

Their greed was insatiable, although they were lazy and slothful; and for that reason they practice unheard-of usury. "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624" by Various

Wagner may reasonably be defended against the charge of greed or luxury. "Richard Wagner" by John F. Runciman

Usage in poetry
For doin' what he had to do,
Through greed, or lust, or hate . . .
Aye, them seem rightful words to you,
But me, I calls it - Fate.
"Sentimental Hangman" by Robert W Service Author object (576)
"Man's greed for wealth has my beauty marred
And robbed me of early joys,
But I sing again, with hope restored,
When I see the girls and boys
"The Stream's Story" by Jared Barhite
Oh for one spot of living greed,--
One little spot where leaves can grow,--
To love unblamed, to walk unseen,
To dream above, to sleep below!
"Spring Has Come" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)
His wife had a greed that was waur than his—
She harl'd a' things in,
As if she wad live for hunners o' years,
An' the warl' never gang dune.
"The Fiddler O' Boglebriggs" by Alexander Anderson
O, Heart of Love! Thy Tenderness
Still runs through life's remotest vein;
And lust and greed and soulless creed
Shall never rule the world again.
"The Prince Of Life" by John Oxenham
So full is life of hate and greed,
So vain the world's poor tinselled show,
What wonder that some souls have need
To flee from all its sin and woe?
"Acqua Fredda" by John Lawson Stoddard