Sentence example with the word 'avarice'

avarice

acedia, avidness, cupidity, fury of desire, gula, inordinate desire, itching palm, niggardliness, piggishness, sloth, tight purse strings, wolfishness

Definition n. reprehensible acquisitiveness

Last update: November 1, 2015


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Ram earned money by greed and avarice.   [noun]

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He is to be her meal ticket for the rest of her days, and she is motivated by avarice as much as love.   [noun]

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An incredibly rapid evolution, driven by avarice, compulsion, globalization, and changing societal values !   [noun]

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"And is it possible to believe, then, that my brother, out of avarice to grasp at my inheritance, would lend himself to such a base and dreadful stratagem."   [noun]

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As Deep calls unto Deep, one bad passion awakened another the fiend of avarice invoked that of pride, and pride was to be supported by cruelty and oppression.   [noun]

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A fit reward for ignoble avarice, and insatiable pride.   [noun]

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, we can pick out little that is intelligible, saving that avarice is defined 'a likourishness of heart after earthly things.'   [noun]

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Parsimony did not accord with the generosity and lofty nature of an Antony, yet avarice itself would not deem the portion still remaining insignificant.   [noun]

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This conversion, instigated by senatorial avarice; owed its accomplishment to the most deplorable and indiscreet policy.   [noun]

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To satisfy the avarice of literary people, it would be necessary to create literary majorats, and make a whole code of exceptions.   [noun]

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This demand, the patricians in their avarice never would accede to.   [noun]

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