avaricious

• “Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “He is often called avaricious, because, like Frau von Sigmundskron, he is often very, very poor; but he has never been called a coward, nor a traitor, by any man, or class of men, who knew him.”

  Greifenstein

• “It is sad to note that in some instances much-needed cooperation has been lacking and the economy has been held to ransom because of what one might call avaricious tendencies," the president said.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The Lombards were called avaricious, vicious and cowardly; the Romans, seditious, turbulent and slanderous; the Sicilians, tyrannical and cruel; the inhabitants of”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “Goldsmith was certainly more at home in this sort of writing, than in gravely lecturing people against the vice of gambling; in warning tradesmen how ill it became them to be seen at races; in demonstrating that justice is a higher virtue than generosity; and in proving that the avaricious are the true benefactors of society.”

  Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series

• “So now, if these teams think I am going to refer to their avaricious stadium by a new isponsor's name, they are sadly mistaken.”

  NY Daily News

• “So now, if these teams think I am going to refer to their avaricious stadium by a new sponsor's name, they are sadly mistaken.”

  NY Daily News

• “Still, the injunction may have been given in view of the character of the individual Pharisees before him, who may have been known as avaricious men; and Christ may have known that to part with their money would be a test of love which they could not stand.”

  The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.

• “Finally, we know that Father Doria very likely will not be saved, because he is sadistic, "avaricious" 88, and completely insensible to Guilo's youth, innocence, gentleness, and beauty.”

  The Boy Martyr; Or, Manfresti's Page. A Story of 1567

• “Old Melmoth died in the course of that night, and died as he had lived, in a kind of avaricious delirium.”

  Melmoth the Wanderer

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