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149 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Spanish > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

avaricia helada

Context:

L ausencia que significa perder a lguien querido, La terrible nostalgia de no conservar..

Keywords:

...ningún recuerdo que podamos tocar. Algo dúctil a lo que aferrarnos: una foto, un libro, una pluma estilográfica, una prenda de ropa...Ningún objeto suyo que nos legara la avaricia helada de su segunda esposa.

 

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149 months ago

Vicki Santamaria  See profile wrote:

coldhearted or coldblooded greed

My comment:

this would work if you interpret "helada" as "unfeeling"

My references:

Roget's International Thesaurus

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149 months ago

Vicki Santamaria  See profile wrote:

the deep miserliness of his second spouse

149 months ago

Vicki Santamaria  See profile wrote:

COLD GRIDNESS

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

149 months ago

  See profile wrote:

gridness is not a word, perhaps you meant to say: grittiness? Is using caps part of the answer?

149 months ago

CALENA TRANSLATIONS  See profile wrote:

pura avaricia

My comment:

No otra cosa que su avaricia

149 months ago

Clara Fernández  See profile wrote:

sheer greed

My comment:

... the sheer greed of his second wife

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149 months ago

  See profile wrote:

helada, cold-hearted greed...:)