All 7 Uses of
avarice
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Traders in the avarice, indifference, or imbecility of parents, and the helplessness of children; ignorant, sordid, brutal men, to whom few considerate persons would have entrusted the board and lodging of a horse or a dog; they formed the worthy cornerstone of a structure, which, for absurdity and a magnificent high-minded LAISSEZ-ALLER neglect, has rarely been exceeded in the world.†
Chpt Pref.
- The old man's eye was keen with the twinklings of avarice and cunning; the young man's bright with the light of intelligence and spirit.†
Chpt 3 *
- Stern, unyielding, dogged, and impenetrable, Ralph cared for nothing in life, or beyond it, save the gratification of two passions, avarice, the first and predominant appetite of his nature, and hatred, the second.†
Chpt 44
- The whole air and attitude of the form was one of stealthy cat-like obsequiousness; the whole expression of the face was concentrated in a wrinkled leer, compounded of cunning, lecherousness, slyness, and avarice.†
Chpt 47
- But now, when he thought how regularly things went on, from day to day, in the same unvarying round; how youth and beauty died, and ugly griping age lived tottering on; how crafty avarice grew rich, and manly honest hearts were poor and sad; how few they were who tenanted the stately houses, and how many of those who lay in noisome pens, or rose each day and laid them down each night, and lived and died, father and son, mother and child, race upon race, and generation upon generation,…†
Chpt 53
- You are, at least, as avaricious as you are revengeful.†
Chpt 56
- That, once suspecting the existence of a conspiracy, they had no difficulty in tracing back its origin to the malice of Ralph, and the vindictiveness and avarice of Squeers.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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(avarice) excessive desire for wealtheditor's notes: Like "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."