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Six example sentences with avaricious, each labelled with its topic.
The fund's avaricious founder charged clients twice for the same advice and still complained about the size of his bonus.
Finance
Dickens gives the avaricious landlord one good coat, one cold room, and a locked drawer he visits every night.
Literature
Textbooks once blamed shortages on avaricious middlemen, though the price of grain usually followed the harvest far more closely.
Economics
The avaricious governor taxed the province three times in one year and kept most of the coin for his own villa.
History
The villain is an avaricious banker who forecloses on the town's only theater to build a parking lot.
Movies
An avaricious supplier raised prices every quarter simply because the factory had no other source for the part.
Business
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