"How much more?" asked Changrit with becoming avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage To The City Of The Dead]

In its way, their time-honored avariciousness was almost quaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning World]

On the one hand, this is avariciousness; on the other, astuteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of His Succession] Reference

When will debt not be an option and when will humans guard against avariciousness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bailouts Blaze; Exuberance Explodes] Reference

You lost the “spiritual” warfare at that point when you opted for underhanded avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The US is Trying to Take Over The World - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Many newspaper executives see something sinister in Craigslist's near-total lack of avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising] Reference

At the mention of the name the little group grew very grave, their avariciousness replaced by trepidation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference

The general theory about him was that advancing years had developed his natural closeness into the stingiest avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

The situation evolved a rough set of checks and balances which tended to hold down the avariciousness of any one particular class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sneak Attack] Reference

She felt the same avariciousness that Shandi must have felt over the dye - if there was one weakness she had, it was for her garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Owlsight]

As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

When we describe their pompous vanity and take exquisite pleasure in putting calipers on the immense littleness of their avarice, we are making records of our own littleness and avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip "Momism" Wylie on Congress] Reference

English writers accuse Henry of miserable avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

But miserliness or avariciousness is a different thing from economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power] Reference

Exaggerate the faculty of acquisitiveness, and it becomes avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

The plaintiff has fallen into hystericals from disappointed avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

No one attributed either cowardice, ambition, or avariciousness to John Burleson.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

He may take His departure, and we may receive in our hearts the spirit of avariciousness and selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.] Reference

In another story, a young to-be-mother boldly walks out of marriage shocked at the avariciousness of her spouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kamat's Potpourri] Reference

I get it, the proposed exchange of money is what really bothers people and everyone is sickened by the avariciousness of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

But yet, with the persistent avariciousness of the white man, the Arabs clung to their loot, and when morning came forced the demoralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Return of Tarzan] Reference

The rights of the poor oppressed, and downtrodden slave, were publicly maintained, and defended, against avariciousness, pride, and selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of Elder David Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement. Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley. Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky Revival] Reference

The party is over, folks and the forces of unbridled greed, ecological indifference, and military industrial avariciousness are unleashed upon us.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Isn't it well to have a trades-union system which curbs the avariciousness of employers and gives workmen a chance to develop the best that is in them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers] Reference

This is the first complete version in English of a 1931 novel whose charmingly jaundiced view of avariciousness is worthy of David Mamet and Ben Jonson.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRI's The World] Reference

"It was built as a residence out of hubris and avariciousness," says Smith, an architect with Toronto's Stanford Downey who works on historical restoration projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

How can a sane person think that the territorial avariciousness of the newly formed Islamic nation would not extend to a beautiful state with nearly half its population Muslims?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asian Correspondent: Atanu Dey on India's Development] Reference

And the dying woman, still possessed by her Norman avariciousness, replied YES with her eyes and her forehead, and so urged her son to get in his wheat, and to leave her to die alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant] Reference

It was quite evident from his very mannerism that Thurid had keenly guessed the man's weakness -- even the clawlike, clutching movement of the fingers betokened the avariciousness of the miser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warlord of Mars] Reference

In the north some disturbances had originated as early as 1775, amongst the Protestant weavers, who suffered severely from the general depression of trade, and the avariciousness of commercial speculators.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

" As forthright as henna on a courtesan's cheeks, avariciousness rouged the swordsman's words.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

It was an avariciousness that surprised her.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]

That your "wants" show your avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clever Dude Finances & Life] Reference

A cobra-bite because of her avariciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

His avariciousness will be checked. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Used the Universe]