avaricious

Example Sentences

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An avaricious, envious flirt on the undisguised lookout for something better, she is angry that John wouldn’t use slave labor to build their house.

From Los Angeles Times

Liverpool are not the only club casting an avaricious eye over the man who is currently one of the hottest managerial properties.

From BBC

Some of those efforts struck observers as avaricious, especially in light of the dignified subject matter.

From New York Times

Ms. Capece Minutolo became a punchline, adding to her notoriety as the girlfriend of a king whose countrymen had found him “profligate and monumentally avaricious,” as The Times put it.

From New York Times

It was colonialism at its most naked and avaricious, and the battles were largely fought at sea.

From Los Angeles Times