Words similar to avarice

Example sentences for: avarice

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

coveitise, coveityse: avarice, greed, covetousness
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.
Most people think the curse that turned everything the old miser touched into gold, leaving him unable to eat or drink, was a lesson in the perils of avarice.
He might have translated it Cupidity is ...,Avarice is..., or even The love of money is ..., but never Money is ...!