Use "avarice" in a sentence

1. Anxiety, avarice and violence are evident everywhere in our so-called technologically sophisticated cultures, but no one seems to think of the children

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2. No, Lemoss, its just the environment here, what with Tom Foolery's new motor factory, the prosperity of the place generally seems to attract avarice, that's greed to you Flitter up there all high and mighty

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3. the owner’s avarice, is heated only during the

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4. As regards the house, from avarice, they think

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5. same reason: the avarice; they need a small

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6. Avarice and injustice are always short-sighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt, in the long-run, the real interest of the landlord

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7. Though, from excess of avarice, in the same manner, the inland corn merchant should sometimes raise the price of his corn somewhat higher than the scarcity of the season requires, yet all the inconveniencies which the people can suffer from this conduct, which effectually secures them from a famine in the end of the season, are inconsiderable, in comparison of what they might have been exposed to by a more liberal way of dealing in the beginning of it the corn merchant himself is likely to suffer the most by this excess of avarice; not only from the indignation which it generally excites against him, but, though he should escape the effects of this indignation, from the quantity of corn which it necessarily leaves upon his hands in the end of the season, and which, if the next season happens to prove favourable, he must always sell for a much lower price than he might otherwise have had

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8. In years of scarcity, the inferior ranks of people impute their distress to the avarice of the corn merchant, who becomes the object of their hatred and indignation

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9. But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property ; passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence

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10. He focused on the fire, marveling at its simple avarice

11. Such actions are prompted or motivated by delusion (ignorance), attachment (including desire and avarice), or aversion (including anger and hatred)

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12. Leora looked to him, “Yes that is true, but it will save us the trouble of having to pass through Avarice, which I believe is a more dangerous and uncertain realm than the other

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13. Taher stood over his foe; this was the first time that he had done battle with a Shaqar, which are the great serpents of Avarice

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14. His stature was tall like the giants of Avarice, thus he towered above her

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15. The one urges to adultery and corruption avarice and deceit; the other bids farewell to these things

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16. Between the rolls of flesh that surrounded them, looked out two black eyes speaking of avarice and cruelty

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17. O God, save us from the threefold ruin of hell -- lust, wrath, and avarice! O soul, gird yourself for the spirit struggle of immortality! When the end of mortal life comes, hesitate not to forsake this body for a more fit and beautiful form and to awake in the realms of the Supreme and Immortal, where there is no fear, sorrow, hunger, thirst, or death

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18. As the head of his family, didn’t he owe it to his posterity to preserve the property? Why should one blame him, when it was Rashid’s avarice that took him to his grave?

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19. The count did so, his dark face lit with avarice; behind him his saturnine captain, Beloso, crowded closer

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20. It preached against greed and avarice, but it did so by denying personal power

21. ited States of America, the banner above the pig reads "United Swines of Avarice

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22. Above my head there were at least a dozen spiders the size of my fist, sitting in their web and watching me with undisguised avarice

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23. This is a more viable path for human salvation than silly, irresponsible “prophecies”, or the short-sighted avarice and pipe dreams offered by materialism

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24. showed his avarice and lack of love for Jesus

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25. colleagues, never saw the avarice, greed and opportunism brewing in the bellies of

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26. His most famous raid was the one in which he destroyed the idol at Somnath and carried away enough booty to appease avarice

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27. The gravest offenders in this respect are lust, wrath, avarice, and inordinate attachment which obstruct one’s realization of the Self

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28. lust, wrath, avarice, and attachment

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29. ” She led him into a marketplace surrounded by the hands of need, want, desire, and avarice

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30. “What?” they said, not meaning what, but never mind, as they reached with innocent greed and Rockwellian avarice for the individually wrapped for your convenience, health, and protection, snack size minis: perfect bite sized pieces too small to share

31. Precancerous Black Friday specials sandwich Thanksgiving between sales of greed and avarice in a world dying by their still gravy stained shopping hands

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32. When compassion based, other-centered states begin to emerge, and only then, will there be a significant decrease in the militarization and policing of the world and a turning towards healing the wounds of avarice and violence

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33. wounds of their avarice and never with their avarice, we will forever let

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34. On the other hand, the masses were likely to die because of hunger and poverty while they were witness to the unspeakable avarice of those inhumane traders in people’s souls

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35. Chattel slavery and cheap labor an unwelcome introduction into capitalism…captured Africans stripped of all personality and humanity…a mechanism of an oppressive system of human sorrows…victims of avarice and self-appointed superiority…pregnant slaves shackled to fears, her naked breasts heavy with tears, her seed in jeopardy of annihilation in a nation that defended the enslavement of Africa’s babies because black skin made it so…no place to go but Heaven… with the connection to Africa stricken from the reach of her children… but the royalty that flows through the veins of her offspring has managed to elude the ad¬versary’s thievery…it remains unscathed, needing only recognition of its presence…the Transatlantic and watery graves, but those that survived became chained up slaves, yet the royalty remains

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36. Chattel slavery and cheap labor an unwelcome introduction into capitalism…captured Africans stripped of all personality and humanity…a mechanism of an oppressive system of human sorrows…victims of avarice and self-appointed superiority…pregnant slaves shackled to fears, her naked breasts heavy with tears, her seed in jeopardy of annihilation in a nation that defended the enslavement of Africa’s babies because black skin made it so…no place to go but Heaven… with the connection to Africa stricken from the reach of her children… but the royalty that flows through the veins of her offspring has managed to elude the adversary’s thievery…it remains unscathed, needing only recognition of its presence…the Transatlantic and watery graves, but those that survived became chained up slaves, yet the royalty remains

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37. Surely, there were riches here beyond the dreams of avarice

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38. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness

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39. Avarice gone mad; worshipping frugality and asceticism

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40. Senators sneering at the avarice and corruption of wealthy business men, while practicing business in secret, and being twice as greedy as the businessmen they hated because of their more open, and more honest greed

41. He singled out the larcenous Jewish culture of greed and avarice as being evil and he was entirely correct

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42. They warned and moralized the poor about the sins of greed, avarice, and stinginess

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43. They turned their avarice into a religion

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44. They share addictions with each other, they share laziness with each other, they share snobbery with each other, they share exclusionary practices with each other, they share hate with each other, they share fear and terror with each other, they share envy with each other, they share selfishness with each other, they share meanness with each other, they share greed with each other, they share mistrust of each other, they share avarice with each other, they share the lowest lusts of the body with each other, they share pornography with each other, they share filth with each other, they share moral ethical rotten behavior with each other, they share fear with each other, they share dead boxes with each other, they share eating dead animals stuffing their bellies until the intestines inside their bellies become huge fat extended bubbles of rotting stinking accumulations of fecal matter that gives them terminal cancer: terminal colon cancer, intestinal cancer: all kinds of cancers that come from indulging themselves and sharing their indulgences as spoiled consumers

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45. Only when you are an evil hoarder, only when avarice and greed and selfishness fills your rotten soul is does this sound like a ‘god idea

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46. Then people would be left alone to live their own lives… as long as they did not attack anyone, as long as they do not have any root intention towards other humans that is negative, evil; stinking of hatred, cowardice, envy, jealousy, fear, avarice, covetousness, etc

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47. Why did Europe descend into the Dark Ages after the Roman Empire slowly rotted, and crumbled? Because Rome had taught all of Europe for a thousand years by peer example; that the only things that matters, is brutality, greed, and avarice

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48. And they would be blessed, and all their sins of greed and avarice and killing and hate and rapacity would be forgiven

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49. Their eyes shine too much with the lust of avarice

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50. The main motivation of the Spanish Conquistadors was their overbearing avarice for gold

51. It was the human subconscious screaming at them that the first human who hollowed out a gourd so they could accumulate something in it: was being negative, accumulating out of fear, out of avarice, out of hunger, out of emptiness

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52. If all you have is a larcenous heart filled with avarice; then you are dead inside: you have never lived and you will never know what true adventure is

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53. Because of this sudden unexpected spurt in Chinese civilization: all of China was held back and turned into a cesspool of ignorance and corruption… while corrupt Europe was allowed to continue its unspeakable advancement of evils poisoning the New World with their germs and their evil poisonous culture of avarice and greed and usury

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54. underestimating the avarice and greed of my boss, Sidney

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55. Now, their sick secular religion of avarice has spread like wildfire all over the world

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56. Nirvana is a mode of being free from what are called personal defilements of lust, anger, ill will, avarice, greed, jealousy, conceit, hatred, fear, sensual desire, obsession, passion, irritation, distraction, vengeance, depression, anxiety, worry, doubt, restlessness and clinging to the body etc

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57. But lets remember that there are seven equally negative behaviours, not only lust but greed, avarice, jealousy and theft, etcetera

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58. It was after me then with a ponderous stumble of heavy steps even as it wailed out its avarice to kill me

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59. Almost for a match to the scroll’s brightness was the avarice that gleamed from the eyes of the listening crowd

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60. I hated this! I hated the injuries that my man had suffered for me, but most of all I hated my father! His avarice and greed soaked ambition had done this!

61. His eyes were full of the avarice of his greed and his insane thirst for power

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62. “Th ere are three notions in life that are destructive: anger, avarice

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63. occupation affords not the means to silence the growl of avarice

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64. In such a situation as that, where there seemed nothing to tempt the avarice or the vanity of any living creature, how could I suppose, when she so earnestly, so warmly insisted on sharing my fate, whatever it might be, that any thing but the most disinterested affection was her inducement? And even now, I cannot comprehend on what motive she acted, or what fancied advantage it could be to her, to be fettered to a man for whom she had not the smallest regard, and who had only two thousand pounds in the world

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65. But I would not believe, and, dazzled by the greed of avarice, I thought that if one

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66. You mean that you do not understand the nature of this payment which to the best men is the great inducement to rule? Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace?

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67. I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations! Avarice is growing with him a besetting sin

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68. or his insubordination to the river-god, on whose divinity he is ready to lay hands; or his offering to the dead Patroclus of his own hair, which had been previously dedicated to the other river-god Spercheius, and that he actually performed this vow; or that he dragged Hector round the tomb of Patroclus, and slaughtered the captives at the pyre; of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any more than I can allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron's pupil, the son of a goddess and of Peleus who was the gentlest of men and third in descent from Zeus, was so disordered in his wits as to be at one time the slave of two seemingly inconsistent passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening contempt of gods and men

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69. a taste in him, and not avarice

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70. “We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt

71. It was a simple quadrangular pyramid, set on a coral base, with no ironwork to tempt the natives' avarice

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72. d'Epinay, if he is an honorable man, will consider himself more than ever pledged to Mademoiselle de Villefort, unless he were actuated by a decided feeling of avarice, but that is impossible

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73. hired? Good, so much the better," said Caderousse, his eyes sparkling with avarice

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74. —Saint Thomas, Stephen smiling said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original, writing of incest from a standpoint different from that of the new Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions

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75. Jews, whom christians tax with avarice, are of all races the most given to intermarriage

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76. " Hatred evidently inspired the Englishman, who, knowing no other reproach to bring on the count, accused him of avarice

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77. I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness

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78. Because at the critical turningpoint of human existence he desired to amend many social conditions, the product of inequality and avarice and international animosity

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79. They were influenced by hatred, by avarice, and by self-love; but I was base, and for want of courage acted against my judgment

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80. Every time he went in and came out with a slam of the door, the sentry on the landing presented arms, and got in return a black, venomous, unsteady glance, which, in reality, saw nothing at all, being merely the reflection of the soul within—a soul of gloomy hatred, irresolution, avarice, and fury

81. Dunk had heard septons say that the isles were sinks of sin and avarice

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82. As to the old man, his satisfied avarice and the certainty of soon getting rid of the dandy without having to pay more than his journey to Nantes, made him nearly indifferent to his presence in the house

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83. She grew as crafty through love as her father was through avarice,

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84. During the last two years his avarice had increased upon him, as all the persistent passions of men increase at a certain age

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85. His despotic spirit had grown in proportion to his avarice, and to part with the control of the smallest fraction of his property at the death of his wife seemed to him a thing "against nature

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86. Charles was not there, and she devoted all her care and attention to the old father, whose faculties had begun to weaken, though his avarice remained instinctively acute

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87. Pious and charitable institutions, a hospital for old age, Christian schools for children, a public library richly endowed, bear testimony against the charge of avarice which some persons lay at her door

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88. For the followers of the fundamental finance approach, the paper trail is excellent, as we noted above, for pointing to junior tranche securities that because of poor financial position or insider avarice are unattractive at any price

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