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Definition of avarice in English: avaricenoun ˈav(ə)rɪsˈævərəs mass nounExtreme greed for wealth or material gain. （对财富或物质的）极度贪婪，贪得无厌 he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice Example sentencesExamples - Its people became rich beyond all dreams of avarice, and in one generation not only have they blown it but they have blown their health, as well.
- It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case.
- It's the roar of selfishness, greed, vanity, avarice, addiction, lust and pointless stupidity.
- It's possible that greed and avarice have been the strongest feelings.
- Greed and avarice, pride and gluttony, lust and jealousy rise like corrupting daemons from the bowels of the Earth.
- The good old sins of avarice and greed help to compound the problems.
- But on second thought, aren't avarice and greed the same thing?
- Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva.
- At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred.
- But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale.
- It's fashionable to turn a blind eye to the exponential growth of executive rewards beyond the dreams of avarice that bear no relationship to economic worth.
- Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity.
- He abolished all taxes on Muslims throughout all the territories - though its yield was more than the dreams of avarice.
- Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment.
- Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips.
- The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up.
- Its heritage of canon law sought to restrict greed and avarice for the common good of society.
- One of the most persistent criticisms of capitalism is that it fosters avarice and greed.
- Today's polls reflect the sharp end of years of inculcation of avarice and greed in our society.
- In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year?
Synonyms greed, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness, graspingness, materialism, mercenariness meanness, miserliness informal money-grubbing, money-grabbing, an itching palm North American informal grabbiness rare Mammonism, pleonexia
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus 'greedy'. Definition of avarice in US English: avaricenounˈævərəsˈavərəs Extreme greed for wealth or material gain. （对财富或物质的）极度贪婪，贪得无厌 he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice Example sentencesExamples - But the stories of avarice and greed and frat boy idiocy are only a part of the tale.
- It's possible that greed and avarice have been the strongest feelings.
- At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred.
- Greed and avarice, pride and gluttony, lust and jealousy rise like corrupting daemons from the bowels of the Earth.
- The good old sins of avarice and greed help to compound the problems.
- Today's polls reflect the sharp end of years of inculcation of avarice and greed in our society.
- Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips.
- Being free from avarice, the material wealth has absolutely no significance for Shiva.
- Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity.
- It's the roar of selfishness, greed, vanity, avarice, addiction, lust and pointless stupidity.
- It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case.
- The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up.
- He abolished all taxes on Muslims throughout all the territories - though its yield was more than the dreams of avarice.
- But on second thought, aren't avarice and greed the same thing?
- In a time when avarice and greed is epidemic, why is a belief system that targets desire and possessions as the cause of unhappiness drawing hundreds of new followers each year?
- Its people became rich beyond all dreams of avarice, and in one generation not only have they blown it but they have blown their health, as well.
- One of the most persistent criticisms of capitalism is that it fosters avarice and greed.
- Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment.
- It's fashionable to turn a blind eye to the exponential growth of executive rewards beyond the dreams of avarice that bear no relationship to economic worth.
- Its heritage of canon law sought to restrict greed and avarice for the common good of society.
Synonyms greed, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness, graspingness, materialism, mercenariness
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus ‘greedy’. |