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avaricious

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av·a·ri·cious  (v-rshs)
adj.
Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.

ava·ricious·ly adv.
ava·ricious·ness n.
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Adj.1.avaricious - immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
acquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

avaricious
adjective grasping, greedy, acquisitive, stingy, mean, miserable, rapacious, penny-pinching, parsimonious, miserly, niggardly, covetous, penurious, close-fisted, tight-arsed (taboo slang), tight-assed (U.S. taboo slang), snoep (S. African informal), tight as a duck's arse (taboo slang) He sacrificed his career so that his avaricious brother could succeed.
Translations
avaricious [ˌævəˈrɪʃəs] ADJavaro
avaricious [ˌævəˈrɪʃəs] adjâpre au gain
avaricious
avaricious [ˌævəˈrɪʃəs] adjavaro/a
avaricious [ˌævəˈrɪʃəs] adjavaro/a


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The Avaricious man prayed to have a room full of gold.
Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad man.
They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.
 
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