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Meanings of avarice in inglés
An inordinate or insatiable longing, especially for wealth, status, and power.
Related terms
Excessive desire for possessions and wealth.
Sinónimos
Examples for "greed"
Examples for "greed"
1
They send a message that greed is good; the individual comes first.
2
Themes of justice, social issues, power and greed are common to both.
3
And the people of northern Europe had an insatiable greed for beavers.
4
Yet nearly all of them had one thing in common: brute greed.
5
This culture of greed is endemic, but perhaps that's a wider issue.
1
In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
2
Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
3
The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.
4
Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.
5
The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.
1
Crime prevailed; cupidity and vengeance were the guiding principles of the chieftains.
2
The hankering after these arises from pride, error of judgment, and cupidity.
3
But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.
4
He tried to satisfy this cupidity, but it stuck in his throat.
5
Property was secure, unless enormous fortunes tempted the cupidity of the emperors.
1
Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
2
Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
3
Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
4
His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.
5
Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
1
The loss of time greediness has inflicted on us has been frightful.
2
He turns round now, and puts the blame of greediness on me.
3
She was delighted to have the excuse for satisfying her own greediness.
4
Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
5
With a greediness that could not be concealed, Hakkabut grasped them all.
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.
1
Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.
2
I want, Christianity, instead of the Mammonism we 're threatened with.
3
Mammonism, as we said, at least works; this goes idle.
4
With our present system of individual Mammonism, and Government by Laissez-faire, this Nation cannot live.
5
The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
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Adeo enim sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.-Hen.
2
Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.
Usage of avarice in inglés
1
It was always easy to count on avarice among the foot soldiers.
2
The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor.
3
This is true of avarice; but it is not so of economy.
4
Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child.
5
Where selfish ambition and avarice will be exposed in its true light.
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In our own Revolutionary war, generals developed pride and avarice and jealousy.
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A characteristic she found remarkable in him was his freedom from avarice.
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He has shaken off the yoke of his spiritual sloth and avarice.
9
They were greedy, and, in their besotted avarice, they killed the goose.
10
The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again.
11
The egotism of Great Britain is equalled only by her narrow-minded avarice.
12
A task to thwart the avarice of Oceanus, and end this madness.
13
He pushed it away, his avarice helping him to resist the temptation.
14
This attachment to old abuses was associated with the most insatiable avarice.
15
He was avaricious, but avarice was the great sin of his times.
16
In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.
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Avarice through the time
Avarice across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common