Avarice in a sentence

A Solomonic monarch is theoretically the last supposed lone bulwark against mobs, bureaucracy, avarice, internal ethnic strife, lawlessness, foreign predation, and injustice.

However, Lex possessed the worst power ring of all: an orange ring of avarice.

With every sympathy for no longer wanting to be a part of a nation with its history of empire building, its racism, violence and avarice, I have to say we are all enmeshed in it.

Boston federal Judge Nathaniel Groton ripped her for having the “gall” and “avarice” to cheat, robbing other deserving kids from being accepted.

Greed and Avarice are no respector of political party.

Greed was born to rid Father of his avarice, but in time, learned to value humanity and give his ultimate treasure for their sake: his own life.

In ‘Enough,’ Anderson, exhales, exhausted by the avarice and spite that plague the world.

My point is that avarice, another definition for lucre, is as old as humanity.

Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora noted that envy is a widely denied emotion: “One may admit to pride, avarice, lust, anger, gluttony and laziness, and one may even boast of them.

Kayfabe, in its original definition, referred to the solemn accord between wrestlers to ensure that everything that happened between the ropes was presented as either legitimate competition or legitimate avarice.

There’s another appalling sound here, too, created by the collision of corporate avarice — in the blurred form of the National Football League — and a doctor fighting a righteous fight.

The ruling caste of Saudi Arabia presents the most striking example in world history of the extreme combination of avarice and personal cowardice.

This has nothing to do with outsiders but empty pride, ostentatious haughtiness display of avarice and greed by a few that infected a whole population plugging majority into capital poverty of the world.

The temptations were associated with the sins of avarice, gluttony, and pride.

A man also named Balaam also figures as an example of a false prophet motivated by greed or avarice in both 2 Peter 2:15 and in Jude 1:11.

As a result, his best films, according to Flint, "have lean, fast-paced scripts and vibrant plots and characterizations, and many of them deal ironically with vanity, avarice and unfulfilled quests".

Avarice must actually be taught since it runs counter to nature.

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.

DC Comics His fear is justified as his victims, including his deceased father, arrive, seeking to feast on his avarice -filled heart.

For the Duke thought it unseemly to receive money for such merchandise, and equally he considered it wrong that Harold should be buried as his mother wished, since so many men lay unburied because of his avarice.