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Liverpool are not the only club casting an avaricious eye over the man who is currently one of the hottest managerial properties.

Some of those efforts struck observers as avaricious, especially in light of the dignified subject matter.

The question of what the hijackers want lingers well into the series, though their concerns appear more avaricious than ideological.

Ms. Capece Minutolo became a punchline, adding to her notoriety as the girlfriend of a king whose countrymen had found him “profligate and monumentally avaricious,” as The Times put it.

It was colonialism at its most naked and avaricious, and the battles were largely fought at sea.