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.
• Or: Here is a way to become rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• But to Luther the monasteries were hotbeds of avarice and pride.
  — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• The gala heist may have been an adventure in avarice, but the framing capped it with style.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• Huey Long would've wept at the level of ambition present in their avarice.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2011
• The company’s many critics see it as the pinnacle of avarice.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The problem wasn’t merely that of empire meeting avarice.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The avarice of the artist can be terrible, and terribly sustaining.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
• But the once-benevolent king appears to have succumbed to avarice and begun meddling with the book of creation.
  — Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• 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.
  — Washington Post, 21 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.
  — Fox News, 22 June 2018
• After all, the Church taught that avarice was one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• But the basis of today’s financial markets seems to be unchecked avarice devoid of oversight.
  — The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• The engineer’s downfall is a saga of avarice and betrayal that left all involved looking bad.
  — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
• Nor was private avarice their besetting sin although they were as subject as most men to the stings of ambition.
  — Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly, 1984
• The commercial possibilities are beyond the dreams of avarice.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• This is no longer a time for avarice or sloth or inactiveness or ineptitude.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The body count in this baroque tale of avarice and corruption in contemporary India is high: five migrants are dead by the end of the first sentence.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• As the King of Deception, his ulterior intent has to be hidden in greed and avarice.
  — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
• And no shortage of philosophical reflection on nature, ego and avarice.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• Disapproval of excessive wealth and unchecked avarice is Hollywood gospel.
  — New York Times, 13 May 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
• Knopf is wary of booksellers, aggrieved by the avarice of certain authors, and invariably obsessed with the quality and curation of the books that his house puts out.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
• The white-collar workers dove for the dollars, revealing the naked avarice that bubbled just beneath their veneer of respectability.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 17 May 2016
• Zellweger gets to play avarice, as Pam really wants that money, but also a sort of delusional neediness.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024