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avarice

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Behind the rhetoric of sisterhood lurks avarice and greed.

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“The record will ultimately demonstrate that this is nothing more than a manufactured lawsuit intended to tarnish the good names of Smokey and Frances Robinson, for no other reason than unadulterated avarice,” the statement read.

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Ellis-Taylor, meanwhile, brings a palpable heartache to “Nickel Boys” as a devoted grandmother sidelined by inequality and avarice.

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But some of the most striking examples are not of intentional cruelty or blatant avarice but of simple blind spots.

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He embraces cruelty, violence, greed, avarice, selfishness, revenge, lying, lust and dissembling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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