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Meanings of avariciousness in inglés
portugués
avareza Sinónimos
Examples for "avarice"
Examples for "avarice"
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.
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.
Usage of avariciousness in inglés
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.
Frequent collocations
Avariciousness through the time