Sentence examples for abject greed from inspiring English sources

It was supposed to be a modern-day triumph of homespun values, loyalty over abject greed, at least until Griffey started slowly, the Reds sank under.500 and stuffed their best pitcher, Denny Neagle, into George Steinbrenner's bottomless pocket.

Robert Curvin and Bruce Porter, co-authors of "Blackout Looting!" a Ford Foundation-sponsored study, divided the looters into three categories: the professional criminals who were the first to start pillaging, the "alienated adolescents" who soon joined in and the poor and not so poor who either got caught up in the excitement or were motivated by "abject greed".

As we saw in 2000 when investors bailed out of the stock markets, and again in the last year or so, markets have a tendency to swing between peaks of blind greed and troughs of abject terror.

ROBERT HIRST Massapequa, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2012   Of all the urgent issues pressing America today, not one is more infuriating to me and everyone I know than our government's abject refusal to prosecute the powerful bankers and other financiers for the catastrophe their greed has inflicted on the lives of millions of innocent citizens.

They just brought greed, greed, greed".

That was abject cowardice".

Of all the abject illusions!

Enormous greed.