Synonyms:
avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
Meaning: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Usage examples
It appealed to his intellectual side far more than it did to his avarice.
It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency.
Avarice, hard-dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!
I would make use of words more grievous still; Because your avarice afflicts the world, Trampling the good and lifting the depraved.
This, however, relieved his thirst; an hour's repose recruited his hardy frame, and, with the indomitable spirit of avarice, he resumed his laborious journey.
But these VIRTUES were infinitely overbalanced by his VICES; no faith, no religion, insatiable avarice, exorbitant ambition, and a more than barbarous cruelty.
When I visited the site of the Globe Theater and found thereon a brewery, whose shares are warranted to make the owner rich beyond the dream of avarice, I was depressed.
Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.
She even went so far as to affect avarice to recommend herself to these sordid natures; and had the ingenuity to make it appear that certain concessions to luxury had been made at the instance of others, to whom she had graciously yielded.
There was only one particular in which Henry was quite decisive; because he was there impelled by his avarice, or, more properly-speaking, his rapacity, the consequence of his profusion: this measure was the entire destruction of the monasteries.