He is so avaricious that we call him a blood sucker. 他如此贪婪,我们都叫他吸血鬼。
They are wicked, full of anger, sinful, false, and avaricious. 他们邪恶,充满愤怒,有罪,欺诈和贪婪。
avaricious
[ adj ] immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth <adj.all> they are avaricious and will do anything for moneycasting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields a grasping old miser grasping commercialism greedy for money and power grew richer and greedier prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Avaricious \Av`a*ri"cious\ ([a^]v`[.a]*r[i^]sh"[u^]s), a. [Cf. F. avaricieux.] Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
Usage: {Avaricious}, {Covetous}, {Parsimonious}, {Penurious}, {Miserly}, {Niggardly}. The avaricious eagerly desire wealth with a view to hoard it. The covetous grasp after it at the expense of others, though not of necessity with a design to save, since a man may be covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living, niggardly in dispensing. ※ -- {Av`a*ri"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Av`a*ri"cious*ness}, n.
Spacey's Bakker seems terminally vague, a Nowhere Man of no fixed philosophical address, an avaricious innocent harried by the Internal Revenue Service and snoopy reporters from the Charlotte Observer.
In "Singer," the title character becomes an avaricious property developer who lends his name to a phenomenon, Singerism, not dissimilar from that recently coined term Thatcherism.