(a.) Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leaving is a given when you're dealing with very greedy people; they are avaricious.
(2) The Telegraph's religion editor and Church of England priest George Pitcher has described him as personifying "the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar New Britain".
(3) Salmon notes that fossil fuel investment has not provided attractive returns relative to the market over a variety of periods and highlights this as evidence that the sector is not necessarily a home for “avaricious” investors.
(4) (But let's not be precious: the author has a very acute ear for that self-regarding, caustic showbizzery, and the chimp is full of apercus such as: "She was an absolute brick, though, Sylvia, and I just didn't see in her that bloodcurdlingly shallow and avaricious gold-digger everybody tells you she became after Doug's death, when she was briefly and lucratively married to Gable."
(5) In cases where there is any doubt, patients should be referred to a psychiatrist, just one of many safeguards that were built into the legislation: a request must be made twice, two weeks apart, to prevent someone in a fit of gloom signing something they might later regret, and the signature has to be witnessed by two people, only one of whom may be a relative, so no two avaricious offspring can shunt mom into her grave.
(6) Yet, the stream of films and media that casually endorse the avaricious and the talentless rich, the exploitative and the violent are viewed as entertainment.
(7) Hadow puts it more chivalrously: "I see the Arctic as a maiden newly discovered on the social scene, and we're melting away her petticoats, and there are some avaricious types peering underneath, and someone needs to defend her honour."
(8) A failed Pacific microstate with an avaricious and unscrupulous leadership – Nauru in the late 1990s reportedly laundered more than US$70bn for the Russian mafia – it was the perfect partner for an Australian refugee dumping exercise.
(9) Going back to the millenials, it is not difficult to see they fit into several camps rather than one avaricious mass of people in search of higher pay at all costs.
(10) He is no convert to what he calls "naked capitalism", but hopes positive examples of business success will encourage avaricious minds to look for more legitimate routes to wealth.
(11) One critic labelled him the "personification of the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar new Britain".
(12) A common belief is that the ever-present threat of malpractice litigation, which hangs over the heads of physicians like the sword of Damocles, is due to avaricious lawyers, unrealistic expectations of patients, and the reckless generosity of juries with other people's money.
(13) Fifty Shades of Grey is a silly, avaricious sex fantasy, but there are enough interesting things in the book – it's a long book – that Taylor-Johnson might find a good movie lurking in there too, among descriptions of the hero's penis as a "Christian Grey-flavoured popsicle".
(14) So far, however, the gemstones have been more curse than blessing, seducing desperate and avaricious Zimbabweans and foreign mercenaries with horrific consequences.
(15) Abacha, who ruled Nigeria for five years after a 1993 coup, is believed to have stolen $4.3bn while in office, placing him among the ranks of Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko as one of Africa’s most avaricious kleptocrats.
(16) While not all investors are necessarily avaricious, many invested because they expected more positive financial returns than have been realised.
(17) Here’s the inevitable Daily Mail laying into “a motley crew of slippery PR men, Cameron cronies and avaricious bankers, plus a smattering of chancers who feathered their nests by selling UK firms to foreigners” (ie the bosses of BT, BP, Shell and other important advertisers).
(18) Montgomery frequently drew protests from reporters at the companies he bought, who portrayed him as an avaricious corporate raider who would place profits before journalistic excellence.
(19) The reality is that the Australian government conceived of, devised, designed and implemented a program that enabled very large numbers of inexperienced workers, often engaged by unscrupulous and avaricious employers or head contractors, who were themselves inexperienced in insulation installation – to undertake potentially dangerous work.
(20) Leave early – whether for reasons of ill health, burn-out or for being universally denounced as an avaricious, world-blighting menace – and it may prove almost impossible, as the TUC recently noted, for the older worker to find another job.
Covetous
Definition:
(v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
(v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(2) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
(4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(5) It was a hat-trick of sex scandals involving Beckham, Eriksson and David Blunkett that landed the paper the coveted newspaper of the year award at last year's British Press Awards.
(6) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
(7) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(8) China says it has launched the world’s first quantum satellite, a project Beijing hopes will enable it to build a coveted “hack-proof” communications system with potentially significant military and commercial applications.
(9) Sometimes I wonder if, 20 years hence, we as a society will decide that it doesn't make sense to grant women coveted spots in advanced programmes in business, law, science or medicine.
(10) The coveted stars of modern football do not want to work like that.
(11) Its use of the internet to carry voice calls threatened to undermine the world’s biggest telecoms companies, from AT&T to Vodafone, and made it one of the most coveted up-starts in the tech world.
(12) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(13) The Spanish champions are seeking to renegotiate with the much-coveted pair, whose deals include buy-out clauses set at around £43m.
(14) There are no jobs currently in existence that we covet."
(15) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
(16) It is ubiquitous, yet coveted, pricey yet just about affordable.
(17) On the edge of Scholar’s Piece, the strip of farmland just behind King’s College, lies a granite stone which has become arguably Cambridge’s most coveted tourist attraction.
(18) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(19) When Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives a coveted Human Rights Defenders award in Geneva , his role as a fearless chronicler of his country's US-led drone war will have come full circle.
(20) Arsenal know that the Catalan club already covet two of their key players, the captain, Cesc Fábregas, and the full-back Gaël Clichy, but Arsène Wenger, the manager, has come to view Arshavin's pronouncements in the Russian media with a degree of amusement.