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Greed vs Hoggery - What's the difference?

greed | hoggery |

As nouns the difference between greed and hoggery

is that greed is a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions while hoggery is hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

greed

English

Noun

  • A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
    • His greed was his undoing.
    What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.

    Synonyms

    * (selfish desire for more than is needed) avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity * See also * (desire for food) gluttony

    Derived terms

    * greedily * greediness * greedy

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    hoggery

    English

    Noun

    (hoggeries)
  • Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
    • Crime and shame / And all their hoggery . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
  • A place where pigs are kept.
    • (Webster 1913)