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    avaricious


    1. Antonio the Avaricious, like the majority of his counterparts, was just plain…that


    2. Perhaps it was simply himself, still trying to come to terms with his new identity as a believer; not an avaricious atavist, not a cold-blooded killer, not a man seeking to empower himself with unsurpassed might and hidden knowledge whatever the cost


    3. To the east lay Argos and beyond that Ophir, proud kingdoms and avaricious


    4. He wore black plate-armor and was followed by thirty spearmen, black-mustached hawks of the border wars, as avaricious and ruthless as himself


    5. He felt the avaricious motive of the coin collector


    6. It feels another's hunger, but is indifferent, contemptuous, or avaricious – it feels against the other


    7. And I have become an infinite warehouse of thieves and a uniprofitarian temple of monergic priests filling my mind with trivial pecuniary transactions, while everything dies and I'm being monopolized by the agents of avaricious commerce


    8. “To tempt people's lives into the market of stock to be slaughtered for avaricious profit, that would turn this asylum from inequality and sanctuary from want into a My Almighty God Owns Gold temple of thieves, where they sacrifice the poor to the demiurge profit


    9. He had had to defend excess greed, avaricious acquisition, and indifferent lifestyles of gaga-extavaganza, but never money itself


    10. He’d come loping up the front steps, looking at the house with what I thought was an avaricious gleam in his eye

    11. Fern glanced away from his avaricious gaze to the expansive water, and then toward the land they’d left behind


    12. Like most lawyers he abhorred corruption in others but condoned it for himself and like most lawyers I have known he was avaricious, mercenary and callous


    13. He is so greedy and avaricious that I think I might be able to come to an arrangement


    14. Any avaricious soul, any greedy little hoarder, anyone with larceny in their heart would see the wisdom of it


    15. The human species is ruled and oppressed and manipulated by fear and hate and avaricious greed


    16. The greediest, most possessive, most envious, most penurious Jews, the most selfish, most rapacious, most cheating, most avaricious of them; cover themselves in layers of public religiosity and sanctity


    17. But the Arabs have not yet learned how to hide naked greed and avaricious lust for money


    18. I made an executive decision and rejected the suggestion from the most junior and most avaricious


    19. He was incapable of heroism, weak, banal, more spiritless than a woman, avaricious too, and cowardly


    20. Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad

    21. I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death


    22. Such an one will despise riches only when he is young; but as he gets older he will be more and more attracted to them, because he has a piece of the avaricious nature in him, and is not single-minded towards virtue, having lost his best guardian


    23. Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one


    24. And the avaricious, I said, is the oligarchical youth?


    25. The man was of powerful frame, and too avaricious to part with his goods without a struggle


    26. He called the animals his cousins, and reminded them that his protecting influence was the reason they remained unharmed, while many avaricious traders were prompting the Indians to take their lives


    27. "I don't take to Philip," said he, smiling, "for it sounds like a moral boy out of the spelling-book, who was so lazy that he fell into a pond, or so fat that he couldn't see out of his eyes, or so avaricious that he locked up his cake till the mice ate it, or so determined to go a bird's-nesting that he got himself eaten by bears who lived handy in the neighborhood


    28. "I did not come to Rome to see," said Danglars aloud; then he added softly, with an avaricious smile, "I came to touch!" and he rapped his pocket-book, in which he had just placed a letter


    29. When I returned home to my own house, I retired into my private chamber for a time, to consult with myself in what manner my deportment should be regulated; for I was conscious that heretofore I had been overly governed with a disposition to do things my own way, and although not in an avaricious temper, yet something, I must confess, with a sort of sinister respect for my own interests


    30. About the third year he had so thoroughly accustomed her to his avaricious methods that they had turned into the settled habits of her own life, and he was able to leave the household keys in her charge without anxiety, and to install her as mistress of the house

    31. The media is an avaricious monster, and demands ‘new’ and fresh news items daily


    32. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian


    33. 'Tis the counsel of an avaricious man to beggars


    34. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in action than a dreamer


    35. The bourgeois is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate


    36. But no the hand stayed, glowed, poisoned the air, hurrying the strange nun-Gypsy's tread as she gasped her avaricious mouth most ardently


    37. Who among his followers might be his friend? He considered them, remembering their sullen scowls, their gleaming, avaricious eyes at the division of spoil


    38. Galloway had that passion, too—I have yet to meet the millionaire who is not avaricious and even stingy


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    Synonyms for "avaricious"

    avaricious covetous grabby grasping greedy prehensile rapacious selfish grudging miserly parsimonious

    "avaricious" definitions

    immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth