Crossword-Solution: AVARICE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Avarice | n. | An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. |
| Avarice | n. | An inordinate desire for some supposed good. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AVARICE | anagram | CAVIARE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with AVARICE (5)
His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years; but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice.
Begone! see them carefully tended; let them not say in their pride, the Saxon churl has shown at once his poverty and his avarice.” The major-domo departed with several attendants, to execute his master’s commands.
Werper, clawing fearfully during the perilous ascent, sweating in terror, almost palsied by fear, but spurred on by avarice, following upward, until at last he stood upon the summit of the rocky hill.
You mean that you do not understand the nature of this payment which to the best men is the great inducement to rule? Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace? Very true.
Maria had been content merely to remember it; but Zerkow's avarice goaded him to a belief that it was still in existence, hid somewhere, perhaps in that very house, stowed away there by Maria.
Quotes with AVARICE (3)
The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to dist…
Every fundamentalism focuses on end times, and Armageddon is, in a sense, a rhetorical trope, an emphatic and overwhelming conclusion, meant to wrap up and make tidy the mistaken wanderings of history. For a fundamentalist the end is one of the forms desire takes, a passion no different from lust or avarice, intense with longing and the need for fulfillment and relief. It’s like they’re horny for apocalypse. They get off on denouements, which partly explains why Hell House ne…
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 126 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).