Sentence Examples

  • He showed indeed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians of the time.
  • Though probably not personally avaricious, he was justly accused of nepotism.
  • He promoted navigation and commerce, but was avaricious and deceitful.
  • It is clear from Guicciardini's autobiographical memoirs that he was ambitious, calculating, avaricious and power-loving from his earliest years; and in Spain he had no more than an opportunity of studying on a large scale those political vices which already ruled the minor potentates of Italy.
  • Licentious and avaricious, he amassed great wealth; and when he died on the 25th of October 1292 he left numerous estates in Shropshire, Worcestershire, Somerset, Kent, Surrey and elsewhere.
 
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