What does the word avaricious mean?
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AVARICIOUSNESS.
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AVARICIOUSLY.
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: adverb
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Usage examples for avaricious
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" Send him away; I've nothing for him," said Mrs. Hamilton, whose avaricious hand, larger far than her heart, grasped at and retained everything. – Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes
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His final income was large, but it was earned by incessant literary toil, which naturally rendered him avaricious of the rewards that might come to him. – Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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Now I am not so avaricious as my grandfather, nor so lavish as my father, and I told the ambassador that I would depend on Scottish gold. – A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr