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In literature, the term "avidious" is employed to infuse descriptions with a sense of intense, almost predatory desire. In one instance, a character’s dark glance is described as momentarily flashing with an avidious quality, suggesting a sudden surge of ambition or covetous malice [1]. Similarly, when an action is described as involving an "avidious little claw," the adjective enhances the eagerness of that gesture, imbuing it with a subtly aggressive and insatiable energy [2].
  1. Bending like a cat, she would gaze into his eyes with her dark glance, in which something avidious would now flash up.
    — from The Man Who Was Afraid by Maksim Gorky
  2. Johnnie's avidious little claw reached out eagerly.
    — from Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham

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