How to Use avaricious in a Sentence

avaricious

adjective
  • Today, that same behavior is likely to be seen with avaricious scorn.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Harlan has an avaricious family, each member of which has something to gain from his death.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • What Netanyahu wants is not this peace deal or avaricious annexations, but to stay in power.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Favre hasn’t been charged with any crimes yet, but the evidence of his avaricious behavior is overwhelming.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Due to a combination of shortages and avaricious sellers, many prospectors were forced to trade gold for potatoes.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • The character was an avaricious Asian man, his one ambition in life to conquer the West.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But what Chrome does have in common with Gmail is an avaricious and out of step approach to data harvesting.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Named for Queen Victoria, the road traced the shoreline of an avaricious colonial power.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Soon thereafter, Jim is killed in action, and the flinty woman grows even more proud, imperious, and avaricious.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • But when their measures prove insufficient against ever more skilled and avaricious hackers, companies freeze.
    — Thomas Ayres, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • Instead of being met with empathy by his peers, many of whom are an avaricious DA away from the same fate, he’s being left out in the cold.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Some of those efforts struck observers as avaricious, especially in light of the dignified subject matter.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Sport has, again, provided us with clarity as to what is happening in the world, with the avaricious corruption of young female skaters front and center.
    — Amy Bass, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Manipulating these obviously very greedy and avaricious [people] is still kind of beneath his skills.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Pearce plays Van Buren as hungry and avaricious even in his kinder moments, a man of immense wealth whose primary desire is to own more and more.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • FLoC can and will be abused by the avaricious data brokers and trackers sitting behind the public internet.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • But is better than the alternative of admitting to an avaricious Moscow that Ukraine must accept some kind of defeat.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The same avaricious few responsible for risking earth’s health, have risked the health of human beings across the globe by refusing to put them above politics and the economy.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 17 Mar. 2020
  • And some particularly avaricious sellers are listing the item at $3,000 or higher.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The Once-ler — who’s been ousted by his avaricious family in favor of a boarder — hits the road and stumbles upon the Lorax’s realm near the story’s start.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
  • Behold how one progressive state is weaponizing federal environmental law to block a tax by an avaricious progressive neighbor.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 July 2023
  • The combination of avaricious lawyers, a consolidated case system and a rogue judge is highlighting again the need for Congress and courts to crack down on legal abuse.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2021
  • This nation state, my home, is built on a quagmire of lies sold to the young as truths; sold to the insecure as truths; sold by the avaricious, the power-hungry, the conceited, the overwhelmingly white and male.
    — Christine Winter, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But the post office — with its economies of scale, and freedom from avaricious shareholders — could offer America’s working class access to short-term credit at a fraction of the present cost.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
  • These were sites of brutal treatment and unbearable sorrow, as callous and avaricious slave traders tore apart families, separating husbands from wives, and children from their parents.
    — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Stalin’s apprenticeship in high-stakes diplomacy had shown him to be cunning but also opportunistic, avaricious, obdurate.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The vagaries of Chinese regulations and an avaricious bureaucracy have already ensnared others, like Avon, once the top direct seller here.
    — Ryan McMorrow and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • People Make Games opened my eyes to the risks of a heavy-handed approach, or one that turned things over to multinational hegemons who are equally PR-conscious and avaricious.
    — Wired, 8 July 2022
  • There are ambitious Black politicians, avaricious developers and coldhearted investment bankers.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021
  • There is an inherent and awkward sensitivity across WhatsApp’s user base, that the world’s largest secure messenger is owned by the world’s most avaricious data harvester.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021

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