avarous

comparative more avarous · superlative most avarous

1. uncommonAvaricious.

   [Winners] will receive what they truly crave: fame. Fame and the undying adoration and admiration of the rest of us mere mortals. Plus of course the fabulous State Prize, which will be of sufficient attraction to excite even the most avarous teams.

   1996, Wing Span, volumes 5-6, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, page 37

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   It is a just matter of lamentation when souls which have been clad with zeal as with scarlet, constantly forward for the glory of God, fall to such apostasy as with Demas to embrace the dunghill of this world, and with an avarous hausture to lick up the mud of corruption.

   1862, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams, page 199

   Roosevelt, himself an avarous meat-eater, called for a formal investigation of the meat-packing scandal. To Roosevelt's horror, the government's report soon revealed that conditions in many of America's meat-packing plants were even worse than described in The Jungle.

   2010 September 2, Richard T. Stanley, A Humorous Account of America's Past: 1898 to 1945, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49