Significados de sordid avarice em inglês

But what you charitably term economy is sordid avarice, and nothing else.

To personal profligacy she added sordid avarice, and a positive incapacity for telling the truth.

Nor sordid avarice, nor vulgar ambition, could point his footsteps to the pathway leading to that banner.

His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice.

The punishment of his sordid avarice will be to see in what a splendid manner this match will be concluded.

Was I not sacrificed to the most sordid avarice, in the first instance, and almost flayed alive in the second, to gratify revenge?

Vassalage is nevertheless ceasing throughout the kingdom, and with it will pass away that sordid avarice which every modification of slavery is calculated to produce.

This once comprehended, one of my apparent contradictions will be easily accounted for, and the most sordid avarice reconciled with the greatest contempt of money.

"Oh!" resumed the other, "I don't accuse his Holiness of sordid avarice, such as is rumoured.