How to Use avaricious in a Sentence

avaricious

adjective
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  • The character was an avaricious Asian man, his one ambition in life to conquer the West.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Sep. 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
  • Named for Queen Victoria, the road traced the shoreline of an avaricious colonial power.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • 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
  • The subtext in his words are clear: Morten and Campbell couldn't get a new project off the ground within the confines of an avaricious Activision boardroom.
    — Luke Winkie, Wired, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Today, that same behavior is likely to be seen with avaricious scorn.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the magazine’s pranks was to mail checks of smaller and smaller quantities to celebrities and wait to see who was avaricious enough to cash them; Mr. Trump redeemed a check for 13 cents.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Geffen comes across as smart, ambitious and avaricious.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
  • FLoC can and will be abused by the avaricious data brokers and trackers sitting behind the public internet.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And some particularly avaricious sellers are listing the item at $3,000 or higher.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
  • But when their measures prove insufficient against ever more skilled and avaricious hackers, companies freeze.
    — Thomas Ayres, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That, of course, would be Johnson's Davis Okuye, a primatologist whose prize subject -- a sign-language-fluent albino gorilla named George -- unluckily runs afoul of a pathogen that plummets from the sky, courtesy of an avaricious corporation.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Wrightsman overcame childhood illness to become a World War I aviator, a crack polo player, and an avaricious but discriminating collector.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2019
  • For decades, this Southern California archetype — conspiratorial, bigoted and avaricious — helped transform the party of Lincoln into the dumpster fire of today.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
  • Winning is the only concept that can permeate their psychological crusts; winning, for the Roy children, is also almost impossible given their avaricious, impulsive ogre of a father.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Zorro has outwitted avaricious governors, truculent men-at-arms and evil oligarchs trying to seize California’s riches and foment discord between Mexico and the United States.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
  • New-vehicle shortages provide cover for automakers to raise MSRPs, particularly since many of their more avaricious dealer partners have already demonstrated, via their markups, buyers' willingness to pay.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2022
  • There are ambitious Black politicians, avaricious developers and coldhearted investment bankers.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021

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