Crossword-Solution: AVARICE 7 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Avarice n. An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness
after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
Avarice n. An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

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We have 89 clues for the answer “AVARICE”

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Hoarder's trait 1 answer
Acquisitive fault. 1 answer
Acquisitiveness, plus. 1 answer
Characteristic of Scrooge 1 answer
Need to have it all 1 answer
Extreme acquisitiveness 1 answer
Extreme greed 1 answer
Galloping greed 1 answer
Gold-fever characteristic 1 answer
Grabby quality 1 answer
Grasping nature 1 answer
Grasping quality 1 answer
Great greed 1 answer
Money-grubbery 1 answer
Hunger for bread 1 answer
Insatiable desire for wealth 1 answer
Insatiable greed 1 answer
Itching palm 1 answer
Lust for lucre 1 answer
Lust for wealth 1 answer
Luxury's child, per Cicero 1 answer
Mania for gain. 1 answer
Midas's fatal flaw 1 answer
Midas's weakness 1 answer
Miser's motif. 1 answer
Miserly desire 1 answer
hunger for wealth 1 answer
The rage of Midas. 1 answer
Trait of a hoarder 1 answer
The "itching palm." 1 answer
Tenth Commandment subject 1 answer
Social ill 1 answer
Sin of the beady-eyed 1 answer
Silas Marner's trait 1 answer
One of Spinoza's "species of madness" 1 answer
Silas Marner's fault. 1 answer
Shylock trait 1 answer
Scrooge's weakness 1 answer
Scrooge's sin 1 answer
Greed for wealth 1 answer
Usurer's motive 1 answer
One of the seven mortal sins. 1 answer
"That disease of which all old men sicken," according to Thomas Middleton 1 answer
"The spur of industry," according to David Hume 1 answer
extreme greed for material wealth 1 answer
"The spur of industry," per David Hume 1 answer
"___, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks."—Dante. 1 answer
Midas's undoing 2 answers
Miser's forte. 2 answers
Miser's sin 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
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.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
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.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
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.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006

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…
Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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…
Charles D'Ambrosio Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters
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Used 126 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).