avaricious

Example Sentences

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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

The set-up: Elvis Presley is on his way to becoming the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, going on a seemingly endless music tour while being shepherded by the avaricious Col.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2023

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

Tuesday Weld was seen regularly as the beautiful, avaricious Thalia Menninger, the financially unattainable object of Dobie’s affections; Warren Beatty had a recurring role early in the run as a blue-blood classmate.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2022

It was roughly four times what even the most avaricious moneylender would charge.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss