[ US /ˈævɝəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈævəɹɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. extreme greed for material wealth
  2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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How To Use avarice In A Sentence

  • Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity.
  • It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
  • All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
  • However, while there are differences in ogrish cultures, especially those before and after the collapse of the last ogre empire and the historical decline of their race, all ogres exhibit anger, vanity, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Dragons of a Vanished Moon
  • I predict that within a short period of time Bercow's or his wife's ego, avarice and self-aggrandising habits - with a little help from a few resentful MPs no doubt - will combine and he will let himself down and resign. The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial
  • Asiatic cholera had its origin in English avarice and cruelty, as they suppose who trace it to the tax which Warren Hastings, when Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. Samuel Johnson 
  • He paid a month's rent in advance, just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice.
  • Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
  • But now, (said he,) the avarice of preastis, and the ignorance of thair office, has caused it altogitther to be vilipended; [78] for the preast, (said he,) whose dewitie and office is to pray for the people, standis up on Sounday, and cryes, 'Ane hes tynt The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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