avaricious

Example Sentences

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As I’ve written before, he’s not an avaricious Mr. Burns or Scrooge.

From Los Angeles Times

Named for Queen Victoria, the road traced the shoreline of an avaricious colonial power.

From New York Times

For decades, this Southern California archetype — conspiratorial, bigoted and avaricious — helped transform the party of Lincoln into the dumpster fire of today.

From Los Angeles Times

The neighbors pool their profits, hoping to reinstall a local jazz fest, until a group of Harvard students inexplicably emerges as avaricious adversaries.

From New York Times

Oligarchy and democracy are incompatible, and we increasingly live in a world controlled in every important way by unaccountable, irresponsible, avaricious multi-billionaires.

From Salon