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Example sentences for: avaricious

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And it is this arm, this right arm, that the avaricious barons of tobacco, who sell death and call it commerce, think they can twist, think they can break, think they can make reach out to them, open-palmed.
Jordan, who's interviewed, comes across as very smart, rather conservative, and much less avaricious than you might expect.
Once upon a time, the casino owners decided that "gambling" was too crude, too avaricious, to describe their fair business.
"Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.
Au contraire , the unhappy consensus was that it was avaricious, monopolistic, loyal only to the bottom line.