Pleonexia, or greed, the wishing and trying for the bigger share, we know under the name of covetousness.

Like putting up a fair-ish selling-plater against a classic yearling.

Besides Presidents, members of cabinet and Congress, and justices of the Supreme Court, there have been a few victorious and less than victorious generals, an embarrassment of ambassadors, some denfuls of literary lions, heirs and heiresses real and apparent, various princes and princesses of the blood, and one capital fellow who was a Knight of the Bathroom.

[…] the warning received only six weeks later for poor attendance as proof that the employer was unjustly papering his personnel file in an effort to create a reason for discharge.