codicia
greed ; rapacity ; greediness ; avariciousness ; avarice ; cupidity ; covetousness.
Appeals to pride, status, greed, and many other aspects of man's nature are sometimes successful.
Britain's elites not only retain their power, they also exercise it with a shameless rapacity.
That element of greediness, which has been a canker in our political hierarchy, should be avoided.
The economy in general was suffering from the company owner's avariciousness.
The seven deadly sins are 'pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth/acedia'.
Cupidity is one of the central themes in the Buddhist philosophy.
Covetousness is without a doubt the biggest sin in the United States and Europe today.
con codicia
rapaciously
greedily
covetously
Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, whales have not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed.
The prisoners pounced on the food like hungry beasts and, champing noisily, gulped down the soup greedily, hardly chewing the meat, and burning their mouths.
He had overlooked the evil intention of a man who covetously wanted to dispossess him of his earthly treasures.
la codicia rompe el saco
grasp all, lose all
But in fact it is a classic case of 'grasp all, lose all' - if Wales had been less greedy, they would have gone for the draw.
