avarice

Example Sentences

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Behind the rhetoric of sisterhood lurks avarice and greed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Walsh’s attorneys said in a court filing that he wasn’t motivated by avarice, but desperation.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, has said the causes of the incident were "greed and avarice" which had allowed all rational safety rules to be broken.

From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2023

Early Christian authors gave dragons human characteristics such as greed and in literature, dragons signaled the sin of avarice — they were creatures to fear and defeat.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2022

He did not behave this way out of avarice; it was simply that his family no longer interested him.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende