(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.
Generous
Definition:
(a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(2) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(3) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(4) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(5) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(6) People who knew him told Guardian Australia he was generous to the core, even if in desperate need for help himself.
(7) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(8) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(9) Both he and Burns were generous with their time when talking to me, and offered thoughtful contributions to that article.
(10) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
(11) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(13) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.
(14) Offering our ADF 2% with no cuts to conditions isn’t exactly generous, but it is a mile ahead of the attack on rights and real wages on offer from this government to public sector workers,” she said.
(15) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(16) With Level I as a generous clinical indicator, 110 (25%) of 525 patients were transfused in excess of blood needs; by Level II (intermediate) and Level III (strict) criteria, 221 (42%) and 314 (60%) of 525 patients, respectively, were transfused in excess of blood needs.
(17) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
(18) In the current experiments we investigated whether the previously recognized sparseness of A beta on the surface of tubular epithelial cells might be accounted for by a protein coding difference deduced from the primary structure of its transcript compared with sequence from lymphoid cells that normally express A beta in generous amounts.
(19) Foster, as minister for the environment three years ago, hatched a scheme to promote renewable fuels through excessively generous subsidies.
(20) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.