Local English word record

avaricious

adjective · 1 sense

immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

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Examples

  • 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

Word relationships

Synonyms

covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

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