(n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
(n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tragedy of Latin American health planning has been that the wisdom of their approach, which seeks to concern health consumers first rather than cater to the avarice of health producers as is done in the U.S., has not been matchable by the level of technological and political sophistication needed to bring it off.
(2) Under the cover of this administration’s constant cloud of chaos – some deliberately generated by Trump, much of it foisted upon him by his incompetence and avarice – this shared agenda is being pursued with methodical and unblinking focus.
(3) We didn’t want to do the manufacturing ourselves: we wanted a business to take on the idea, make the bikes, and bring us riches beyond the dreams of avarice.
(4) Combination of sclerotherapy with portal antihypertensive medication might become the treatment of choice until eradication of varices has been achieved; thereafter either continued medication or repeated endoscopy will maintain an avariceal state and effective prevention of recurrent variceal bleeding.
(5) He was the perfect 80s movie star, an emblem of American avarice, beloved of all the housewives.
(6) He display- ed no signs of personal avarice; he cut his presidential salary when he came to power, and lopped off a further third of it as a regular donation to a children's fund.
(7) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
(8) You’re more likely to die at weekends because of junior doctors’ avarice and indolence.
(9) "We can see the results: the government cronies get rich – some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice – while the people stay poor."
(10) We could ascribe all of these investments to some kind of misplaced avarice.
(11) I am a Bollinger Bolshevik, apparently, because I believe I should have a final say in what my tickets cost, in order to manage audience expectation of the work itself, to control perceptions of my own apparent avarice and to make sure that money that is spent on me by punters reflects the cost savings I and the venue have cut corners to make, and the public subsidies the venue may have received, all of which are designed to make entry to the show viable, so that all sorts of people can come along and think I am shit together.
(12) We can see the results: the government cronies get rich – some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice – while the people stay poor."
(13) Quite the opposite is true.” FSG has been stung by accusations of avarice and protests that threaten Klopp’s ideal of unity between fans and the club.
(14) The flower of English football is being eaten by canker worms of money and avarice.
(15) On transparency, he slams countries - such as in Africa - who: rip off hard working people and plunder natural resources... Government officials get rich, some beyond their wildest dreams of avarice.
(16) Yesterday it was the Barclays board, avatars of avarice overseeing rewards beyond any conceivable fair share – a 10% rise in bonuses despite a 32% fall in profits.
(17) Even the star of the Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence, chose to publicly tut at her own employer’s avarice (“I think it’s too soon.
(18) Now his emotions spewed, they shot out: fear, anxiety, worry, power, thirst, hunger, lust, avarice, hubris … He's feeling everything and he's alive.
(19) A s a parable of avarice, it is surely much older than the internet that has recently given it a new lease of life.
(20) When all the outlandish trappings of an extraordinary event have begun to fade and gather dust in the memory, when we have grown vague about the wheeling and dealing involved, about how ethnic pride and financial avarice became ardent bedmates, when we scarcely smile at the remembered sight of Bundini Brown planting a kiss and a “Float like a butterfly” biro on President Mobutu or the more appealing but equally unlikely spectacle of an attractive young black woman breast-feeding her baby in the third row ringside, where accommodation cost $250 a place without mention of meals – when that distant day comes, what will remain utterly undiminished is the excitement of Muhammad Ali’s performance.
Cupidity
Definition:
(n.) A passionate desire; love.
(n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(2) Even patients with lip deformities considered too mild for a standard Abbe flap no longer need be denied lip revision when the cupid's bow is deficient.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) It was found that Millard's technique restores nostril height and the cupid's bow more effectively.
(5) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(6) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(7) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(8) It reaches everywhere: the National Gallery in London has a long list of questionable provenances, including the famous panel by Lucas Cranach, Cupid Complaining to Venus , which during the second world war was in Hitler's personal collection.
(9) In 1909, the American illustrator Rose O’Neill drew a comic strip about “kewpies” (taken from cupid) – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were handed out as carnival prizes and capered around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 1925, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
(10) Most of the patients afflicted had unacceptable upper lip anatomy characterized by tightness and lack of cupid's bow and bulk.
(11) With hearts on her cheeks, kiss curls on her forehead and cupid’s bow lips, Claude Cahun stares out at us in a small black and white photograph, taken in 1927.
(12) Fortunately for the human species, wounds from Cupid's bow are much more common than any injury discussed by us.
(13) Its severity may be defined by the degree of downward depression of the nostril rim, skin striae of the upper lip, notching of Cupid's bow, and deformity of the vermilion border.
(14) However, a secondary surgical procedure is often necessary to improve the appearance and symmetry in the cupid's bow area.
(15) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
(16) The deformity of the upper lip of a congenital and acquired character is often accompanied by an alteration of the Cupid arch contours.
(17) In 2001, Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote of the then-overgrown and under-threat tracks: “The High Line does not offer a God’s-eye view of the city, exactly, but something rarer, the view of a lesser angel: of a cupid in a Renaissance painting, of the putti looking down on the Nativity manger.” But Friends of the High Line, the campaign group that saved the line from demolition and is now in charge of rebuilding it, seems to be seeking a simpler reaction from the public, something closer to photographer Joel Sternfield ’s verdict upon seeing the tracks for the first time: “It’s green!
(18) There are no calls for the works of Caravaggio, for instance, to be hidden or destroyed, even though his paintings Victorious Cupid and St John the Baptist are of a naked, pre-pubescent boy, an assistant with whom Caravaggio is believed to have been having sex – which we would consider to be abuse by today’s standards.
(19) Molecular cytogenetic techniques were used to delineate a subtle chromosome rearrangement in an infant with growth and psychomotor retardation, abnormal scalp hair pattern, narrow palpebral fissures, broad nasal bridge, bulbous nose, small nostrils, thin lips in a cupid's bow configuration, bilateral simian creases, and unilateral cryptorchidism.
(20) They found him guilty of lying to his former comrades in the Scottish Socialist party about being the "unmarried MSP" who had visited Cupids and had an adulterous affair who was the focus of the first NoW exposé.