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Перевод: avarice

[существительное]
алчность ; жадность ; корыстолюбие
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Тезаурус:

1. Values such as avarice and callousness were denounced.
2. Since, whether sunk in Avarice, or Pride;
3. They seem like a private club of legal beings with a special language and their own incomprehensible codes of behaviour; a body of disinterested arguers, thriving like malevolen parasites on human tragedy and avarice.
4. Freedom from petty worries, from envy, jealousy and avarice?
5. He was so distraught by the "vernal desolation of avarice" after 1809 at Lodore and Manesty that "dreading farther mischief," he made drawings of the lake margin from Stable Hills to Isthmus.
6. As a result of the man's refreshing lack of avarice, a replica of the pub had to be built.
7. Although most writers favour Melanie's avarice as the cause of the delay, this is unlikely as the manuscript was not released, even though she was over 80 when she died, and her greed was thus left unsatisfied.
8. It is a fundamentalism which imposes an edifice of avarice, deception and patriotism on the claims of Jesus Christ.
9. To promise - not the dream of avarice -
10. There has, however, been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome's power: was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures, and thereby incidentally achieve this new position, or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated (for example, by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory)?
11. The courtly Knight, the bawdy Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Nun's Priest and the Pardoner will recount their colourful and humorous tales of chivalry, romance, jealousy, pride and avarice.
12. But it is also a saga of human avarice and the abuse of power.
13. It is avarice that enhances a jewel and gives it an artificial beauty, but the stones of the sea are valueless so their beauty is real.