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Six example sentences with avarice, each labelled with its topic.
Dickens gave the old moneylender an avarice so total that he counted coins on Christmas morning by candlelight.
Literature
The pamphlet blamed the crash on the avarice of speculators who mortgaged their homes to buy one more bulb.
Economics
The villain's avarice drives the whole heist plot; he already owns three vaults and still wants the fourth.
Movies
Chroniclers blamed the avarice of the tax collectors, who kept a third of every coin they gathered for the crown.
History
Aristotle treats avarice as a failure of balance, wanting wealth beyond any use it could serve in a good life.
Philosophy
The inquiry blamed plain avarice for the fund's collapse, as managers chased fees on deals they knew were rotten.
Finance
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