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avarice
noun
(av-a-rice)
extreme greed for material wealth
Synonyms:
avariciousness
,
covetousness
,
cupidity
,
avarice
noun
(av-a-rice)
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
avaritia
,
covetousness
,
greed
,
rapacity
,
Words Related to
avarice
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greed
,
cupidity
,
rapacity
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covetousness
,
avariciousness
,
avaritia
,
fordid
,
greediness
,
selfishness
,
gluttony
,
egotism
,
hubris
,
venality
,
rapaciousness
,
lust
,
arrogance
,
wickedness
,
unscrupulousness
,
recklessness
,
miserliness
,
acquisitiveness
,
malignity
,
opportunism
,
stupidity
,
deceit
,
irresponsibility
,
profligacy
,
immorality
,
megalomania
,
egoism
,
vainglory
,
depravity
,
prodigality
,
dishonesty
,
narcissism
,
deceitfulness
,
egomania
,
extravagance
,
foolishness
,
perversity
,
pleonexia
,
improvidence
,
rottenness
,
shamelessness
,
knavery
,
esurience
,
rapine
,
pigheadedness
,
spinelessness
,
mendacity
,
rascality
,
mammon
,
shortsightedness
,
edacity
,
idiocy
,
profiteers
,
craven
,
perfidy
,
slothfulness
,
caprice
,
plutocrats
,
heartlessness
,
voraciousness
,
gullibility
,
philistinism
,
insatiability
,
malfeasance
,
sanctimony
,
thievery
,
folly
,
roguery
,
cynicism
,
duplicity
,
careerism
,
heedlessness
,
decadence
,
egotists
,
excesses
,
malevolence
,
concupiscence
,
consumerism
,
capriciousness
,
faithlessness
,
corruptness
,
machinations
,
gutlessness
,
indolence
,
jobbery
,
asininity
,
thoughtlessness
,
capitalism
,
kleptocracy
,
amorality
,
huckstering
,
irrationality
,
exorbitance
,
harlotry
,
fatcat
,
hypocrisy
,
fatuity
,
avarice
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