avaricious
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His avaricious acquisitions of western lands is well known and not incidental to his desire to break from Great Britain, which had tried to limit western migration.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
Liverpool are not the only club casting an avaricious eye over the man who is currently one of the hottest managerial properties.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
As I’ve written before, he’s not an avaricious Mr. Burns or Scrooge.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022
Cowardly, avaricious, annoying, territorial, deceitful, opportunistic: There aren’t enough shady adjectives in the dictionary to describe the narrator of Andrew Lipstein’s “Last Resort.”
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022
Finally, Colonel Meecham began his descent, every step a deliberate one, tortoise-slow, designed to augment the impatience of his giddily avaricious offspring.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing avaricious
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Monkey's Paw," Vocabulary from the short story
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