Digital Ink on Paper » Newsweek http://www.vikkipusong.com A blog by Vikki Pusong Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Sixth Deadly Sin http://www.vikkipusong.com/2009/04/08/the-sixth-deadly-sin/ http://www.vikkipusong.com/2009/04/08/the-sixth-deadly-sin/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:16:17 +0000 Vikki http://www.vikkipusong.com/?p=49 According to Newsweek, Genghis Khan, Pope Sixtus IV, Empress Dowager Cixi, Bernard Maldoff, and Imelda Marcos have one thing in common – they are all guilty of the sixth deadly sin, avarice. Then again, we may have been guilty of this sin, too. But let’s just say that they managed to wreck the greed-o-meter because they were named as the Greediest People of All Time.

Imelda, to some people, may be greedy and to some, a shoe collector extraordinaire. Remember the word imeldific?

imeldific. adj. Ostentatiously extravagant to the point of vulgarity

Source: Wordspy

Translation: 3,000 pairs of shoes, a humongous wardrobe, tons of jewels, and fat bank accounts.

When you mention the name Imelda, you don’t even have to add Marcos to it for you to know her.

Wanna see the full list? Check out Newsweek online.

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