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Example sentences for: avarice

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The Old English word for cupiditas is gitsung avarice, greed, a word not easily confused with feoh cattle; property; money.
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.
The problem with an efficient tax system is that it provides no built-in brake on the government's avarice.
He might have translated it Cupidity is ...,Avarice is..., or even The love of money is ..., but never Money is ...!
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.