avaricious

adj

Etymology: From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).

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

   “In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...”