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Meanings of
avariciousness
in English
Portuguese
avareza
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Extreme greed for material wealth.
avarice
covetousness
cupidity
Portuguese
avareza
Usage of
avariciousness
in English
1
The elder daughter is killed by a cobra-bite because of her
avariciousness
.
2
The
avariciousness
of the household yielded to the demands of religion.
3
But miserliness or
avariciousness
is a different thing from economy.
4
Exaggerate the faculty of acquisitiveness, and it becomes
avariciousness
.
5
His
avariciousness
,
except in certain things, passed all belief.
6
The general theory about him was that advancing years had developed his natural closeness into the stingiest
avariciousness
.
7
I explained to him the petty squabbles between Court and Parliament, in consequence of the extortionate imposts and of Mazarin's
avariciousness
.
8
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without
avariciousness
.
9
Pirkheimer, writing after the artist's death, says that by her
avariciousness
and quarreling nature she brought him to the grave before his day.
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Frequent collocations
become avariciousness
stingiest avariciousness
Translations for
avariciousness
Portuguese
avareza
ganância
Avariciousness
through the time