Sentence examples for overweening greed from inspiring English sources
His broadside was not against making money but, rather, what he described as an all-encompassing climate of overweening greed.
Those triplets are still endangering us -- and today we can understand "materialism" to include the overweening greed of the wealthy, the burning of Mother Earth for profit, and the despair imposed on the poor and the disappearing middle class, as well as the addiction of many to heedless consumerism.
One school of thought holds that Amis deserves the abuse he gets, because his is a tale of promise and privilege corrupted by overweening ambition and greed.
Here, we meant "overweening".
His vanity was overweening.
Self-deception, overweening vanity, misogyny.
Mr. Shyamalan generally torpedoes his movies with overweening self-seriousness.
Perhaps overweening vanity has run its course for the moment.
"Some sort of" — hand flap — "overweening pride, I suppose?
The pedagogical impulse can get a bit overweening.
In other words: beware of overweening Vice-Presidents.
