Sample Sentences foravarice (editor-reviewed)
-
•
We can try both to minimize greed and avarice and to channel them into directions beneficial to society.avarice = excessive desire for wealth
-
•
She was doomed to an empty life motivated by avarice.
-
•
The TV preachers peddled promises, and offered hope to people who had none. There would have been great good in that, I believe, if they had not followed every sermon with a request for a portion of their flock's old-age pensions. Instead, it was an odd mix of good and evil, and people like my momma understood their avarice but forgave it, because the words the men spoke were comfort to her and their preaching was first-rate. (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years; but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. (source)avarice = greed
-
•
...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
-
•
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
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
-
•
They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins. (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)
-
•
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. (source)avarice = excessive desire for wealth
-
•
Vimla's avaricious husband-to-be with the perfect horoscope was demanding a red Maruti car from Potatoes-babu.† (source)
-
•
It was just possible that the Marquesa de Montemayor was not a monster of avarice, and Uncle Pio of self-indulgence. (source)
-
•
The gray cat she'd named Galahad lay like a fat slug on the arm of the chair and studied Roarke's plate with bicolored, avaricious eyes.† (source)
-
•
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
-
•
As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.† (source)
-
•
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
-
•
And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man?† (source)
▲ show less (of above)