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avarice
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  • They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins.  (source)
  • Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.  (source)
  • It was just possible that the Marquesa de Montemayor was not a monster of avarice, and Uncle Pio of self-indulgence.  (source)
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  • ...and left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the dream of avarice, ...  (source)
    avarice = excessive desire for wealth
  • I know my learned professors have found greater riches in the Iliad than I shall ever find; but I am not avaricious.  (source)
    avaricious = greedy (excessively interested in riches)
  • One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste.  (source)
    avariciously = greedily
  • Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could obtain.  (source)
    avarice = excessive desire for money
  • Vimla's avaricious husband-to-be with the perfect horoscope was demanding a red Maruti car from Potatoes-babu.†  (source)
    avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
  • Avarice, hard-dealing, griping cares?  (source)
    Avarice = excessive desire for wealth
  • And a desire for three million francs in the avaricious section of that heart.†  (source)
    avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
  • There is first to note that, whereas in other principalities the ambition of the nobles and the insolence of the people only have to be contended with, the Roman emperors had a third difficulty in having to put up with the cruelty and avarice of their soldiers,  (source)
    avarice = excessive desire for wealth
  • It was roughly four times what even the most avaricious moneylender would charge.†  (source)
    avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
  • Arrogance and avarice and lust for power.†  (source)
    avarice = excessive desire for wealth
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