Clues for the word "AVARICE"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 169 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 15, 2026.
Definition of avarice
- n. - An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
- n. - An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
Referring Clues
- Cupidity
- Profiteer's vice
- It's a sin
- Sin of the beady-eyed
- A deadly sin
- Galloping greed
- Midas's downfall
- Greed
- One of the deadly sins
- Greediness
- Trait of a hoarder
- Money-grubbery
- One of Spinoza's "species of madness"
- Mammonism
- Scrooge's fault
- Insatiable greed
- One of Spinoza's "species of madness"
- Grasping quality
- Hunger for bread
- "That disease of which all old men sicken," according to Thomas Middleton
- Tenth Commandment subject
- Money-grubbing
- Acquisitiveness
- Miserly desire
- Midas's undoing
- Shylock trait
- Great greed
- Excessive desire for wealth
- "The spur of industry," per David Hume
- Hoarder's trait
- One of the seven deadly sins
- Social ill
- Luxury's child, per Cicero
- Moneygrubbing
- Miser's sin
- Extreme acquisitiveness
- Ordering caviare demonstrates greed
- I crave - a form of greed
- Extreme greed
- Greed - caviare (anag)
- Insatiable desire for wealth
- A pair of aristocrats wallowing in immorality and sin
- It makes a man keen on money and a woman on food
- Greed for wealth
- Girl, given Chinese food, wanting more
- Eric upset by girl's greed
- Deadly sin of a soldier caught up in depravity
- Covetousness
- 1,000 taken from vicarage? That could be a sin
- A right in a wrong is still a wrong
- Greed is a weakness, a redhead admitted
- A sin to embrace a king? Yes
- Greed shown by artist falling back into a bad habit
- Greed shown by girl with diamonds round front of robe(7)
- A sin to devour a third of tiramisu - this one?
- Deadly sin
- Money-grubber's trait
- Greed displayed by girl taking pudding
- Extreme greed for riches
- Grasping nature
- "The spur of industry," according to David Hume
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 15, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 14, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 11, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 06, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 23, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 06, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 07, 2026
- Daily American - March 22, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 12, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - November 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 08, 2025
- New York Times - October 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 09, 2024
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