Avaricious

From Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia ("greed"), from avarus ("greedy"), of avere ("crave, long for").

Full definition of avaricious

Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...