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1churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
2abstemiousness — n 1. teetotalism, nephalism, temperance, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue ribbonism; Rechabitism. 2. habitual abstinence, abstention, nonindulgence, moderation, continence, celibacy, fasting; Puritanism, austerity, self mortification, self… …
3avarice — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fistedness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
4Theft — • The secret taking of another s property against the reasonable will of that other Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Theft Theft …
5churlishness — n. 1. Rudeness, incivility, roughness, brutishness. 2. Crabbedness, moroseness, sullenness, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, asperity, harshness, bitterness, ill temper. 3. Niggardliness, stinginess, penuriousness, closeness, meanness, miserliness,… …
6parsimony — noun the parsimony of her grandparents had embittered her against the elderly Syn: cheapness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close fistedness, closeness, penny pinching; informal stinginess, minginess, tightness,… …
7avarice — [n] extreme greed avidity, close fistedness*, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, pennypinching*, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift; concepts 335,410 Ant. generosity,… …
8United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
9cupidity — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapa ciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fist edness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
