Significados de mean avarice em inglês

That industry, which is the foundation of independence, and so of equity, they stigmatized as stupid drudgery, or as mean avarice.

Whatever there may be in him of weakness, whether it be a mean avarice, cowardice, or a deceitful disposition, will there inevitably appear.

I think I understood dimly, even then, that mean avarice and self-seeking ambition always find their true level in muddy earth, never among the stars.