Definitions for avarices

avarices av·a·rice

Spelling: [av-er-is]
IPA: /ˈæv ər ɪs/

Avarices is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in avarices (aaceirsv).

Definitions for avarices

noun

  1. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
  2. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

Origin of avarices

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin avāritia, equivalent to avār(us) greedy + -itia -ice

Examples for avarices

There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.

TopsyBy Michael Daly A tragic tale of a circus elephant who fell victim to human competition and avarice.

Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace?

The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world.

He is incapable of envy or avarice, whether from virtue or from carelessness.

There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air.

The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again.

avarice will likely bring a politician down, unless the pol can be portrayed as a champion of the little guy or a cause.

It was the age of unbridled excess, avarice, and machismo gone haywire.

I am writing it,” she tells us, “and I spill it all out on my lap like very money, like riches, beyond the dreams of avarice.

There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.

TopsyBy Michael Daly A tragic tale of a circus elephant who fell victim to human competition and avarice.

Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace?

The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world.

He is incapable of envy or avarice, whether from virtue or from carelessness.

There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of avarice was in the air.

The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again.

avarice will likely bring a politician down, unless the pol can be portrayed as a champion of the little guy or a cause.

It was the age of unbridled excess, avarice, and machismo gone haywire.

I am writing it,” she tells us, “and I spill it all out on my lap like very money, like riches, beyond the dreams of avarice.

Word Value for avarices
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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