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Another word for avaricious

Adjective

  1. Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity

    2. See also:

    give

    desire

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Another word for avaricious

Modifier
    2. See also:

    greedy

    See syn. study at

    greedy

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Sentence Examples

  • He showed indeed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians of the time.

  • Though probably not personally avaricious, he was justly accused of nepotism.

  • He promoted navigation and commerce, but was avaricious and deceitful.

  • I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people.

  • It is clear from Guicciardini's autobiographical memoirs that he was ambitious, calculating, avaricious and power-loving from his earliest years; and in Spain he had no more than an opportunity of studying on a large scale those political vices which already ruled the minor potentates of Italy.

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