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avaricious

— adjective (= covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth they are avaricious and will do anything for money casting 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

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greedy

stingy

covetous

miserly

grasping

rapacious

selfish

voracious

miser

mean

avid

eagerly desirous

acquisitive

ravenous

piggish

niggardly

insatiable

grabby

winning over

ungenerous

sordid

prehensile

parsimonious

niggard

moneygrubbing

mammonish

gluttonous

closefisted

vulturous

thrifty

spare

predatory

penurious

moneygrubber

mingy

mercenary

mean-spirited

meagre

meager

lustful

jealous

jaundiced

illiberal

happy

green-eyed

glutton

frugal

filthy

economical

close-fisted

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Work and occupation Finance Share wealth

Stingy

• What words describe a person who refuses to share?
  stingy avaricious parsimonious miserly