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to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt

now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

avaricious / greedy / rapacious / insatiable / avid

greedy

to be corrupt / corruption / to embezzle

avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied

gluttonous / voracious

greed / avarice / rapacious / avid

to covet / to seek (riches, fame)

to cling to / to be reluctant to give up (sth) / to have a fondness for (an indulgence etc)

to be greedy in getting money

greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck

corrupt official / grasping functionary / greedy mandarin

corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law

to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late

to drink in excess

to pursue greedily / to crave

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

gluttonous

anti-corruption (policy)

avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied

to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)