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avaricious: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

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closefisted collapse: unwilling to part with money

predatory collapse: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

penny pinching collapse

unslakeable collapse

money mad collapse

unsated collapse: not having been satisfied

money hungry collapse

grabby collapse

gobbling collapse

selfish collapse: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

unquenchable collapse

unappeasable collapse

venal collapse

insatiable collapse

thirsty collapse: able to take in large quantities of moisture; "thirsty towels"; feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty"; needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"

ambitious collapse: having a strong desire for success or achievement; requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

ungenerous collapse: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"

rapacious collapse: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

acquisitive collapse: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

avid collapse: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"; (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame"

piggish collapse

illiberal collapse: narrow-minded about cherished opinions

devouring collapse

hoggish collapse: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"

stingy collapse: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

ravenous collapse

mercenary collapse: a person hired to fight for another country than their own

omnivorous collapse: feeding on both plants and animals

voracious collapse

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

pinching collapse

miserly collapse

bottomless collapse: unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar"; extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake"; having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets"; having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front"

unsatisfied collapse

swinish collapse

limitless collapse

grasping collapse: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands; understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

cheap collapse: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"; embarrassingly stingy

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