Meanings of very avaricious in English

That makes me fear that his uncle is either in moderate circumstances or very avaricious.

They are very generous to one another in regard to provisions, but otherwise very avaricious.

WHEN I first lived in Brussels my local bar was run by a very avaricious businessman.

She was very avaricious, and a great gambler.

According to Fétis, Peri was very avaricious.

But you heard, Andreas, that the woman is not in distress, for she is rich and very avaricious.

Though very avaricious, yet he was so poor a speaker that he found it easier to give men coins than words.

Being very avaricious, Scheih Ibrahim determined to spend only the tenth part of the money and to keep the rest to himself.

At sunrise came the king, and when he saw the gold he was astonished and very much rejoiced, for he was very avaricious.

She appeared to be of a very avaricious disposition, though this might indeed have been the result of self-denial, practised through filial affection.

I am not very avaricious; yet I must own that I should like to enjoy it without so much trouble as that would cost me.

Most assuredly they would say that I was very avaricious of my own blood, while I was very ready to risk the lives of others.

He was a strange man, this uncle; disliked by all who knew him; passionate, vindictive, and, it was said, very avaricious, even from his childhood.