Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
| Käännös | |
|---|---|
| Substantiivit | |
| 1. | Gier {die} |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
- Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Esimerkit
- With this there grows, In my most ill-compos’d affection, such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands.
- Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them?
- Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.