Avaricious is valid Scrabble Word

Is avaricious a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for AVARICIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

greedy of gain
having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

greedy of gain; excessively acquisitive especially in seeking to hoard riches

Words related to AVARICIOUS

avarice12 avariciously20

Words that contain AVARICIOUS

avariciously20 avariciousness19 avariciousnesse20 avariciousnesses21

How to use AVARICIOUS in a sentence

So avaricious is the Emperor, that when he can, he makes the rich Moors supply arms for their poorer brethren, instead of furnishing them from government depots.
Folks were merely astonished that such a harsh, avaricious woman should have been willing to quit this life without taking her goods and chattels with her.
But no, he was still as fresh as ever, and Pascal was sure that for a long time to come he would continue to grow old like this, hard, avaricious, useless, and happy.
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth.
And it is true that we see that avaricious men who trespass across boundaries become poor.
She appeared to be of a very avaricious disposition, though this might indeed have been the result of self-denial, practised through filial affection.
In which Julian relates his adventures in the character of an avaricious Jew CHAPTER XII.
Then his hand shot upwards in an avaricious clutch.
Vespasian was accused of being avaricious, but Nero had left the treasury in such a state that he could hardly have governed without being careful.
The shop-keepers of Paris are a very polite class, and are as avaricious as they are polite.

You are afraid of the avaricious principle of fathers.
But observe that the avaricious principle is here mitigated very considerably.
It tells us that a famine occurred in the land, and that a number of peasants came to the avaricious bishop to beg for bread.
The man who becomes avaricious has thrown away the armor of life, has abandoned the post of virtue.
He rode along cheerfully, feasting his avaricious heart on the great hoard he would bring back, when suddenly the ass that bore him balked.
They are industrious and frugal, temperate and regular in their habits, but at the same time avaricious, sullen, obstinate, vindictive, and sanguinary.
The Barbary Jews were rich and industrious, and, accordingly, their wealth provoke the cupidity of the indolent and avaricious Mussulmans.
But his restless intellect would never leave him to indulge in prolonged repose, and, though not avaricious, he was not more averse than other men to increasing his fortune.
Francis, who was quite avaricious, left the office with a heavy heart.
Ireton was avaricious, and extorted money from the clergy.
The avaricious and despotic priest lowered his eyes before them, smilingly anxious to make himself agreeable.
Pious talk very frequently is the haze in which an avaricious and greedy soul hides itself.
During this time he became exceedingly avaricious and greedy for ignoble gain.
The thought that Philip was about to take that money with him had almost turned the brain of the avaricious old man.
The avaricious father was so enraged, that, deaf to the feelings of a parent, he turned his own child out of doors.
As a matter of fact, Disraeli himself was neither avaricious nor revengeful, and, as far as one can judge, was never tempted to be either.
Now the king had a grand-vizir who was avaricious, and envious, and a very bad man.
Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one.
Meanwell was a charitable, good man, he stood up for the poor at the parish meetings, and was unwilling to have them oppressed by Sir Timothy and this avaricious farmer.

Similar words containing AVARICIOU without suffix s

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