|avə|rishəs adjective
Etymology: Middle French avaricieux, from Old French, from avarice
: actuated by avarice : inordinately desirous of accumulating wealth, often in niggardly ways and merely in order to hoard it
[they] were furtively avaricious ; they couldn't help being stingy, since parsimony ran in their blood, but they were not frank about it — Victoria Sackville-West
Synonyms: see covetous