avarice meaning

• Noun: avarice  avuris
  1. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
     - greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia 
  2. Extreme greed for material wealth
     - avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity, graspingness

  Derived forms: avarices

  See also: avaricious

  Type of: deadly sin, greed, mortal sin

  Encyclopedia: Avarice

• avarice was his prevailing passion.
• avarice is a bane to happiness.
• What does discretion end, and avarice begin?
• Their avarice knows no bounds, you can never satisfy them.
• Had i really loved, could i have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice.
• avarice is growing with him a besetting sin
• When it provokes avarice, it becomes a sin
• avarice makes rich people want to become even richer
• The chief ingredient in the making of a criminal is avarice
• The chicken represents greed, avarice

• "avarice" meaning in Chinese: n. 贪心，贪婪。
• "avarice" meaning in Japanese: avarice n. 貪欲(どんよく)さ. 【形容詞 名詞＋】 ◆insatiable avarice 飽くことのな...
• "avarice" meaning in Russian: 1) алчность, жадность, корыстолюбие Ex: insatiable avarice...
• "avarice" meaning in French: n. avarice, attachement excessif à l'argent; avidité; pi...