Tuesday word: Avarice

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Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

Avarice (noun)
avarice [ av-er-is ]

noun
1. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

WORDS RELATED TO AVARICE
avidity, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, greediness, miserliness, parsimony, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift, penny-pinching

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OTHER WORDS FOR AVARICE
cupidity

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old French, from Latin avaritia, equivalent to avar(us) “greedy” + -itia -ice

HOW TO USE AVARICE IN A SENTENCE
There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air.
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It is this mindless atrocity, driven by both avarice and animosity, that is at play in the film.
HOLOCAUST HORRORS HAUNT THE FILMS ‘IDA’ AND ‘THE GERMAN DOCTOR’ | JACK SCHWARTZ | MAY 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

And his small-scale sculpture avarice and Lust (1887) embodies the two sins via a masculine form entangled with a female one.
MAPPLETHORPE’S ARTISTIC TWIN | SARAH MOROZ | APRIL 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

TopsyBy Michael Daly A tragic tale of a circus elephant who fell victim to human competition and avarice.
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avarice will likely bring a politician down, unless the pol can be portrayed as a champion of the little guy or a cause.
THE TAXONOMY OF SCANDALS: IS OBAMA NEARING A BREAKING POINT? | LLOYD GREEN | MAY 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST