avarice


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Synonyms for avarice

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Synonyms for avarice

excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves

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Synonyms for avarice

reprehensible acquisitiveness

extreme greed for material wealth

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Avarice and corruption have made life miserable for the common people.
'A situation where the same geopolitical zone which produced the Vice President of the country and the National leader of our party, is seen scheming and demanding, with a bloated sense of entitlement, the Speakership of the House of Representatives, smacks of political avarice, brazen injustice and grave disservice to good conscience.'
Gambling is the son of avarice, and the father of despair.
In the grand tradition of folk stories it ventures into a moral forest of avarice, madness, magic and death.
The implication that Belsay Estate operates purely from a motive of avarice is unpleasant and wrong; the estate managers have overseen positive additions and upgrades to Belsay village and for us residents over the last few years.
collection, Betsa (Avarice), from which these poems have been chosen,
Once there was a stable, and a babe in a manger Good will to all men, especially the stranger A hug, an embrace and of course all the best Bless you and yours and of course all the rest A star on the tree, a place for the grotto Tidings to you all was always the motto Black Friday appeared, it's message was bleak Avarice and greed they trampled the weak Getting into debt because of their kids The PlayStations, the Xbox and vids Foodbanks for people in this day and age Poverty and need re-enter the stage Look out for those with only the least We've come a long way form that star in the East!
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Greed or avarice is the inordinate desire to acquire and possess more than one needs to survive.
"I've been thinking about the seven deadly sins for a while," says British artist Barnaby Barford, whose exhibition of new life-size sculptural mirrors, each based on a vice (pride, avarice, gluttony, envy, lust, sloth, and wrath), opens in February at the David Gill Galleries in London.
It's not so much the lack of respect for each other and the scourge of anti-social behaviour, more the greed and avarice born of an economic system that demands growth, growth and yet more growth.
Mr Lynch and Co clearly find it acceptable to want more, more, more in return for less, less, less (who's committing avarice now Mr Lynch?).
Structurally, the work is divided into six chapters: I, "The Myth of the Golden Age"; II, "The Figure of Saturn in Dante's Divine Comedy"; III, "Dante's Search for the Golden Age: Avarice and Justice"; IV, "Henry VII and the Dream of a new Golden Age"; V, "The Medusa as Cupiditas"; and, VI, "Avarice and Prodigality among the Suicides." The monograph, as is evident from the table of contents, focuses chiefly on the myth of Saturn, the God who is associated with the Golden Age.
"Here is a story of naivete, ambition, duplicity, avarice, and poverty...." So states Noel (former director, Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological research program) in his prologue.
But, your so-called illegal foreigners would have reached the kingdom with appropriate documents and later became runaways due to the avarice of someone.