(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.
Greedy
Definition:
(superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.
(superl.) Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most rentiers are not as easily identified as the greedy banker or manager.
(2) It's the greedy internet service providers, say MPs from an all-party committee, who want ISPs to apply automatic filters to prevent access to adult material.
(3) "The property owner has backtracked and displayed a greediness, realising that there is much to be gained and in so doing has begun to exploit the situation," he said.
(4) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
(5) Why not use the report to announce that the bonus tax will continue until banks (and board rooms) control their offensively greedy pay?
(6) "We the taxpayer continue to finance the greedy executives while this government continues to cosy up to them in secret negotiations which have no effective outcome.
(7) The other airport boss sympathises: "Is it them being greedy, or airlines wanting every ounce of capacity when they can?
(8) And in our audiobook review, we examine appetite with Lionel Shriver's novel Big Brother, and Jay Rayner's exploration of the food industry, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World.
(9) We should all want our money managers to be greedy, with a strong caveat: the self-interest of bankers needs to be aligned with the health of the bank.
(10) The 1% are disproportionately made up not of people who are most able, but of those who are most greedy and least concerned about the rights, feelings and welfare of other people .
(11) But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.
(12) Amurao’s workers have invented their own word to describe anybody who is extravagantly greedy: “Imeldific”.
(13) We are either greedy capitalists or we offer bribes.
(14) But for the greedy and adventurous, each one is an absolute trip.
(15) It was based on a greedy society and unsustainable growth.
(16) Others will have a dual purpose and split between personal and business use, such as: • Mortgage interest (but not the capital repayment) or rent if you're a tenant • Running costs such as heat, light and water and TV licence if it's an essential tool • Repairs to your home or adding a desk and bookcase to an existing room • Council tax • Car or van – for a list of allowances for petrol and running costs go to the HMRC website "Don't be greedy by claiming 100% for business use or you will be liable for capital gains tax on that portion when you sell your home.
(17) Kleiner Perkins’ attorneys homed in on Pao’s perceived personal shortcomings, painting a cartoonish picture of a greedy and incompetent ex-employee out only for revenge and a big pay day.
(18) Bill Winters Ousted from the investment bank JP Morgan after a quarter of a century in 2009, Winters has blamed the banking crisis on "greedy bankers, investors and borrowers".
(19) One investor, Joan Woolard, told the bank's directors that anyone who needed more than £1m to live on was "just a greedy bastard".
(20) Leaving is a given when you're dealing with very greedy people; they are avaricious.