avaricious

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From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).

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avaricious (comparative more avaricious, superlative most avaricious)

  1. Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
    • 1835, Robert Montgomery Bird, The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow:
      In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...

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