Example sentences for: avarice

How can you use “avarice” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The ambition of the conductor is abetted by the avarice of the agent, who receives a commission of up to 20 percent on the fees and salaries he negotiates.

  • The Old English word for cupiditas is gitsung avarice, greed, a word not easily confused with feoh cattle; property; money.

  • The cover story assails the avarice of drug companies for developing lucrative lifestyle drugs to treat impotence, baldness, wrinkles, and toenail fungus, while ignoring unprofitable deadly diseases.

  • He might have translated it Cupidity is ...,Avarice is..., or even The love of money is ..., but never Money is ...!

  • Scholars will investigate a range of subjects including techno music and globalization, avarice in the late middle ages and Renaissance, and African-Americans and foreign affairs.


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