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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"
grabby, grasping, greedy, covetous, prehensile
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"
Translations
avaricious [æveˈrɪʃəs] adj → avaricioso
avaricious [ævəˈrɪʃəs] adj → âpre au gain
avaricious [ævəˈrɪʃəs] avarice adj → habsüchtig
avaricious [ævəˈrɪʃəs] adj → avaro/a


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The Avaricious man prayed to have a room full of gold.
Fables by Aesop View in context
Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad man.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
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.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
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