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avaricious | greedhead |

As an adjective avaricious

is actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

As a noun greedhead is

an avaricious person.

avaricious

English

Alternative forms

* avaritious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)
    • In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * avariciously * avariciousness

    Related terms

    * avarice

    References

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    greedhead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An avaricious person.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 29, author=David Olive, title=Summiteers in rare unity on crisis, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=And the reckless greedheads at this tiny 400-person London outpost of the New York-based AIG were recently paid $165 million (U.S.) in bonuses for their massive incompetence in guaranteeing against default hundreds of billions of debt that did go bad. }}