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Definition of avaricious : Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Synonyms:

jealous, devouring, covetous, stingy, envious, close, prehensile, penurious, study atgreedy, desire, give, hungry, esurient, parsimonious, niggardly, avid, grabby

greedy, cadging, money-grubbing, mercenary, possessive, monopolistic, usurious, rapacious, grasping, hoarding, selfish, venal, acquisitive, miserly, sordid

Usage examples:

• He fanned the avaricious fanaticism of his followers into a flame of religious enthusiasm, and they became soldier priests, whose deaths on the battlefield were glorious martyrdoms, which gave them immediate entrance into a paradise where all their inclinations could be indulged to an unlimited degree. - "Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam", H. E. E. Hayes.
• He was a wizened, very avaricious- looking old man, who must have been close upon seventy, and though he owned 500 head of cattle and 70 camels, he dressed his old bones in nothing save a loin- cloth, and his matted grey locks were adorned and kept together by a simple leather thong twisted several times round his forehead. - "Southern Arabia", Theodore Bent Mabel Bent.
• The avaricious man is like the state which is governed by rich men. - "The Five Great Philosophies of Life", William de Witt Hyde.