Avaricious in a sentence

But perhaps the worst environment for teachers and students is in schools led by avaricious and oppressive school administrators who act like they are the present-day equivalent of ancient Roman centurions or the Spanish colonizers’ guardia sibil.

Of course, the avaricious plutocrats, with their hands deep in Uncle Sam’s pockets, have been shielded from any financial pain by the demands of these ruthless Republicans.

Fight for the expropriation of the bankers and capitalists whose avaricious greed for profit is a constant cause of wars and crises!

Of course, if the state provides quality education and private institutions are also not avaricious, then there could be financial relief for the poor and the salaried.

The only thing wrong with it is the rip on the box where they got a bit avaricious at Christmas.

Craig’s trial has supplanted any image of Washington’s elite as sage Brahmins with a vivid picture of the ruling class at its avaricious worst.

Scared to death, Kiyomaru flees to the local police station to beg for protection, and a group of cops is assigned to escort him nearly 750 miles, to Tokyo - encountering avaricious bounty hunters all the way.

Other exceptionally persuasive performances come from Praduman Singh as Irrfan’s shifty cheesy office colleague and Anuja Sathe as a timid office co-worker who transforms into an avaricious money monster in no time at all.

A nobleman in the state of Wei accused the Qin state of being "avaricious, perverse, eager for profit, and without sincerity.

It is also the place where Athos and Nergal came upon the knowledge of dragons, and where Nergal learned how to steal a creature's life force, or quintessence, and use it to fuel his own avaricious desires.

John intensified his efforts to maximise all possible sources of income, to the extent that he has been described as "avaricious, miserly, extortionate and moneyminded".

Julian himself described the man as "undeserving" of the position, but appropriate "for the avaricious and rebellious people of Antioch".

Parapsychology * It is said that people who have brown auras are often unethical businessmen who are in business purely for the sake of greed, or people who are just generally greedy and avaricious.

Story's register still exists and according to the 19th century historian W.R.W Stephens "affords some illustrations of the avaricious and parsimonious character of the king".

This syllable occurs in the Middle Dutch vrac, "avaricious", and old Norwegian frakkr, "quick, bold", and means something like "brave, daring, courageous".

With slight variations much of English literature up until the 20th century depicts the Jew as "a monied, cruel, lecherous, avaricious outsider tolerated only because of his golden hoard".