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What does avarice mean?

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Noun
  1. Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
  2. Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
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I like the idea of dark banking transactions taking place in towns like Miltown Malbay, awash with transnational avarice.
The fences and barriers, speed bumps and empty watchmen's huts are the trappings of wealth, the buffers of avarice.
Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
It might seem natural that merriment goes with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice but that, when you think about it, is hardly ever the case.
He rose from very humble beginnings and reached the pinnacle of success and later he fell, due to his own avarice and crookedness.
At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred.

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