avarice

Behind the rhetoric of sisterhood lurks avarice and greed.

“The record will ultimately demonstrate that this is nothing more than a manufactured lawsuit intended to tarnish the good names of Smokey and Frances Robinson, for no other reason than unadulterated avarice,” the statement read.

Ellis-Taylor, meanwhile, brings a palpable heartache to “Nickel Boys” as a devoted grandmother sidelined by inequality and avarice.

But some of the most striking examples are not of intentional cruelty or blatant avarice but of simple blind spots.

He embraces cruelty, violence, greed, avarice, selfishness, revenge, lying, lust and dissembling.