How to Use avarice in a Sentence

avarice

noun
  • The corporate world is plagued by avarice and a thirst for power.
  • He was driven by avarice.
  • Mammon, the lord of avarice and demon god of greed and money.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The gala heist may have been an adventure in avarice, but the framing capped it with style.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
  • But to Luther the monasteries were hotbeds of avarice and pride.
    — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Huey Long would've wept at the level of ambition present in their avarice.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2011
  • One reason for targeting Ashaal could have been run-of-the-mill avarice.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Our nerves are sinews, our tears and blood have been sacrificed on the altar of this nation’s avarice.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • The company’s many critics see it as the pinnacle of avarice.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Goodwill is corrupted on arrival by the modern virtue of avarice.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Greed always has been there, but its cocktail of avarice liquor and bitters has been poured too strong and now goes down hard and ugly.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This is no longer a time for avarice or sloth or inactiveness or ineptitude.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • No one is immune from guilt given how ownership and politicians equally drank from the well of avarice.
    — Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The avarice of the artist can be terrible, and terribly sustaining.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Much of that corruption has been driven by the common temptations of avarice and power.
    — James M. Banner Jr., Time, 22 July 2019
  • Here's a look at some of the first wives whose avarice and hunger for power came to define them and by extension their husbands in power.
    — Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • Here’s a look at some of the first wives whose avarice and hunger for power came to define them and by extension their husbands in power.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • The engineer’s downfall is a saga of avarice and betrayal that left all involved looking bad.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • But the basis of today’s financial markets seems to be unchecked avarice devoid of oversight.
    — The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • There is no king to protect you, no House of Lords to temper the majority’s greed or avarice.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 21 Mar. 2021
  • After all, the Church taught that avarice was one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
  • To be sure, plenty of this acquisitiveness comes from a love of gaming, not from unthinking avarice.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Oct. 2020
  • But the damage this episode of Europe-bashing and open colonial avarice has done is real and enduring.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And no shortage of philosophical reflection on nature, ego and avarice.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But the pouting silver pitcher that symbolizes the race has never been a vessel for commercial avarice.
    — Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
  • Disapproval of excessive wealth and unchecked avarice is Hollywood gospel.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • As the King of Deception, his ulterior intent has to be hidden in greed and avarice.
    — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Bull markets are dangerous because success breeds overconfidence and, at times, avarice.
    — Marc Cooper, Forbes.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The poison apples don't fall far from the tree, and one by one Roderick's adult children destroy themselves in the name of avarice and glory.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023

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