Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an avaricious manner; with inordinate desire of gaining wealth; covetously.
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- adverb In a
greedy or self-serving manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a greedy manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Only an industry as avariciously myopic as Big Coal would believe it would get away with such bald-faced dishonesty.
Jeff Biggers: 55 Cents: The Cost of Big Coal Hubris, Disgraced West Virginian Pols and Betrayed Coalfield Residents Jeff Biggers 2011
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Only an industry as avariciously myopic as Big Coal would believe it would get away with such bald-faced dishonesty.
Jeff Biggers: 55 Cents: The Cost of Big Coal Hubris, Disgraced West Virginian Pols and Betrayed Coalfield Residents Jeff Biggers 2011
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Their heads were bent forward, they were animated by a suppressed eagerness, their eyes flashed avariciously.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010
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He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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"They thought that it sufficed for a prince to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor "
Winner Takes All 2010
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The multitrillion dollar bailout of an avariciously reckless Wall Street rammed through Washington, without any input from an angry public, epitomized shared outrage.
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The minute problem of people avariciously going for reductionism even when it is the wrong choice resolves itself by the competition on "the market of ideas".
This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test! | Universe Today 2010
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"They thought that it sufficed for a prince to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor "
Winner Takes All 2010
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"They thought that it sufficed for a prince to think up a sharp reply, to write a beautiful letter, to demonstrate wit and readiness in saying and words, to know how to weave a fraud to conduct himself avariciously and proudly, to rot in idleness, to give military rank by favor "
Winner Takes All 2010
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