avariciousness

Example Sentences

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For the Greeks, that was just avariciousness, an activity that shrunk you down into a people-pleasing marketer or hollowed you out because you pursued hollow things.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2017

It is anyone's guess whether ownership can survive the accessibility the Internet provides or the avariciousness of the music streaming services.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2015

Oh, yes," he admits, "we have a very mercenary segment that displays the avariciousness and lack of humanitarianism of the times.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the north some disturbances had originated as early as 1775, amongst the Protestant weavers, who suffered severely from the general depression of trade, and the avariciousness of commercial speculators.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

I explained to him the petty squabbles between Court and Parliament, in consequence of the extortionate imposts and of Mazarin's avariciousness.

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael