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 Translation for 'avaricious' from English to Polish
ADJ   avaricious | more avaricious | most avaricious
SYNO avaricious | covetous | grabby | ...
chciwy {adj}avaricious
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Translation for 'avaricious' from English to Polish

avaricious
chciwy {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Her avaricious father Don Jerome wants to marry her to the equally avaricious and cunning Isaac Mendoza, who through his inordinate fondness for overreaching whosoever he has to do, is generally as much a fool as a knave, and is thus the dupe of his own art, as Donna Louisa tells her father.
  • In March 1660 at the Chateau de Gramont, Catherine married Louis de Grimaldi, the second Duke of Valentinois and heir to the throne of Monaco, who was described as "a glorious and avaricious Italian".
  • He played the avaricious Harvey Bains, manager of the retirement home in "Waiting for God", alongside Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden.
  • Klossowski also appeared in Robert Bresson's "Au hasard Balthazar" as the avaricious miller who desires Marie, a character played by Anne Wiazemsky.
  • The depiction of the grovelling, avaricious and impudent beggar is considered to be very funny, and the poem is full of burlesque humour.

  • Addressed to Postumus, a rich but avaricious friend. Nothing can stay the advance of decay and death, the common doom of all on earth. Men pile up wealth, only for another to waste it.
  • Plato's dialogs present his generally hostile views on the sophists' thought, due to which he is largely responsible for the modern view of the sophist as an avaricious instructor who teaches deception.
  • "Ambrosio, an avaricious canon, has a pretty niece called Léonore, betrothed to a Frenchman who has never been near the house or the niece.
  • In the 14th century, Dante Alighieri depicted the punishment of many "clergymen, and popes and cardinals" in hell for being avaricious or miserly.
  • They fight to frequently that when the avaricious proprietor is killed, the young man becomes the prime suspect.

  • He was said to be avaricious, lending money at high rates of interest.
  • "Fashion is a word invented by the avaricious to prey upon the insecure."—1988 "Interior Design" article.
  • Seneca viewed property as only becoming necessary when men become avaricious.
  • In particular, it reveals the epicurean lifestyles of the rich and powerful, the considerable sexual freedom enjoyed by courtesans, and the avaricious nature of their mothers who were once courtesans themselves.
  • The concept of ego reduction is predicated on the use of Sigmund Freud's concept of the ego to describe the conscious adult self; and broadly describes the deflating of an over-inflated or egotistical sense of oneself - a curtailment of what Iris Murdoch called “the anxious avaricious tentacles of the self”.

  • In helping the Greenlees escape the avaricious tax collector, in making good Munn & Scott's bogus receipts so farmers would not get hurt and banging his gavel hard when there's a racist incident occurring in the trading pit, we have a glimpse of a man living the American way.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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