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Meanings of avaricious in English
Excessively desirous of money, wealth or possessions.
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Examples for "grasping"
Examples for "grasping"
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The man was openly exultant; he stood for Demos grasping the sceptre.
2
The act of Fred Linden in grasping the limb saved his life.
3
The wild blood in her leaped at the thought of grasping happiness.
4
This will teach thee caution in judgment and accuracy in grasping subjects.
5
The players form in a circle, grasping the hands of their neighbors.
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Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.
2
However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
3
A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.
4
There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.
5
Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.
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The major powers are covetous of top jobs at the United Nations.
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The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
3
It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable.
4
In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.
5
The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.
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The prehensile way the long feet controlled the motion of the swing.
2
Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
3
Strange-seehow small it is-andbroad, how prehensile the toes-almost like fingers.
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All prehensile-tailed monkeys are American, but all American monkeys are not prehensile-tailed.
5
The seahorses wrapped their prehensile tails around our fingers and hung on.
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I mean, what if you get all grabby and whiney on me?
2
VW's seven-speed dual-clutch automatic is fluid at cruising speed but grabby when parking.
3
Pity the story isn't quite as grabby as the head, though.
4
While you might not be grabby, it's certainly no challenge to trip you either.
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The band opened with three from the new record, but none was particularly grabby.
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This would boost the economy by making cheaper loans available to cash-hungry enterprises.
2
So it's not clear what the Grins' longtime game plan is for this tiny cash-hungry company.
3
Demand from cash-hungry banks, particularly for the ECB cash, was hefty as lending between banks on money markets remained virtually paralysed.
4
The group says the mobile unit will hand out 85 percent of net profit to shareholders - including, of course, a cash-hungry parent.
5
Yar'Adua's critics say he risks undermining Nigeria's hard-won reputation for fiscal discipline if he fails to keep cash-hungry state governors from squandering the savings.
Usage of avaricious in English
1
Greed, sometimes sat in the councils, and the avaricious bent the rules.
2
Though avaricious, it was in order to spend and not to hoard.
3
But they are avaricious and envious, Tomas; and Mammon hath corrupted them.
4
An avaricious smile of satisfaction drew down the corners of his lips.
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He was avaricious, but avarice was the great sin of his times.
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An avaricious, vacuous Africa, in love with TV soap operas and fridges.
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Every corrupt transaction is between a venal politician and an avaricious businessman.
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Helene Vauquier was avaricious and greedy, like so many of her class.
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It may be objected, that very wise men have been notoriously avaricious.
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Francis, who was quite avaricious, left the office with a heavy heart.
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She is not as avaricious as the counts and dukes, I'll wager.
12
Pecoil was a citizen of Lyons, a wholesale dealer, and extremely avaricious.
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He was not avaricious to accumulate property, neither was he a spendthrift.
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Why are avaricious promoters DCM concerts putting on a massive free gig?
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Dissolute, cruel, and avaricious Messalina certainly was, but mad she was not.
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The art of seasoning pleasures in general, consists in being avaricious with them.
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