avarice

Example Sentences

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His avarice makes Boesky look like a Mormon Tabernacle Choir boy.

From Salon

Behind the rhetoric of sisterhood lurks avarice and greed.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon