Значения термина greediness на английском

It was always easy to count on avarice among the foot soldiers.

The avarice of the French bourgeoise would have proved a promising factor.

This is true of avarice; but it is not so of economy.

Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child.

Where selfish ambition and avarice will be exposed in its true light.

In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.

Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.

The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.

Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.

The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.

Crime prevailed; cupidity and vengeance were the guiding principles of the chieftains.

The hankering after these arises from pride, error of judgment, and cupidity.

But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.

He tried to satisfy this cupidity, but it stuck in his throat.

Property was secure, unless enormous fortunes tempted the cupidity of the emperors.

Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.

Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.

Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.

His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity.

Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.

Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.

I want, Christianity, instead of the Mammonism we 're threatened with.

Mammonism, as we said, at least works; this goes idle.

With our present system of individual Mammonism, and Government by Laissez-faire, this Nation cannot live.

The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.

Adeo enim sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.-Hen.

Mores enim sequuntur ibidem perversissimi; regnat superbia, ardet avaritia, invidia corrodit singulos, luxuria diffamat totam illam curiam, gula in omnibus dominatur.