Значения термина avaricious на английском

Superefficient engines that were kept off the market by greedy energy companies.

However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.

A greedy algorithm approach was used to conduct the propensity score match.

There was one of her family in particular that was especially greedy.

Simple in his tastes, and yet very vain and greedy of applause.

The major powers are covetous of top jobs at the United Nations.

The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.

It is a covetous grasping, a recognition that the other is indispensable.

In all this there is nothing of a self-seeking or covetous kind.

The duty not to contrive through a covetous heart to despoil another.

The prehensile way the long feet controlled the motion of the swing.

Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.

Strange-seehow small it is-andbroad, how prehensile the toes-almost like fingers.

All prehensile-tailed monkeys are American, but all American monkeys are not prehensile-tailed.

The seahorses wrapped their prehensile tails around our fingers and hung on.

I mean, what if you get all grabby and whiney on me?

VW's seven-speed dual-clutch automatic is fluid at cruising speed but grabby when parking.

Pity the story isn't quite as grabby as the head, though.

While you might not be grabby, it's certainly no challenge to trip you either.

The band opened with three from the new record, but none was particularly grabby.

This would boost the economy by making cheaper loans available to cash-hungry enterprises.

So it's not clear what the Grins' longtime game plan is for this tiny cash-hungry company.

Demand from cash-hungry banks, particularly for the ECB cash, was hefty as lending between banks on money markets remained virtually paralysed.

The group says the mobile unit will hand out 85 percent of net profit to shareholders - including, of course, a cash-hungry parent.

Yar'Adua's critics say he risks undermining Nigeria's hard-won reputation for fiscal discipline if he fails to keep cash-hungry state governors from squandering the savings.