Example Sentences

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As foreign secretary, he looked avariciously at DFID's £15bn aid budget.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2020

Brown was, among other things, part traditional southern gent, part bootstrapped American dreamer, part avariciously cold-blooded capitalist and part Afro-conscious black radical.

From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2015

As the film shows, they avariciously consume it whilst feeling rather guilty and self-conscious about it.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2013

Erie and Pere Marquette stockholders waited avariciously for greater inducements; the C. & O. minority, which foiled the first merger plan, remained obdurate.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the doctor is obliged to impose upon the credulity of the avariciously innocent, and dilute the medicine.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)