avariciously

In grasping fashion

In a greedy or grasping manner, with excessive desire for wealth or gain.

Someone who avariciously hoards money refuses to spend even when comfortable.

He avariciously eyed the inheritance, The company avariciously pursued every possible revenue stream.

greedy

greed

Excessive desire for wealth

voracious · ravenous · gluttonous · insatiable · mercenary · materialistic · money-grubbing · money-hungry · miserly · penny-pinching

selfish

self-serving

Benefiting oneself primarily

me-first · self-centered · egocentric · calculating · stingy · tight-fisted · niggardly · parsimonious · ungenerous · begrudging

predatory

rapacious

Excessively grasping or greedy

usurious · extortionate · looting · pillaging · vulturine · sharklike · piratical · marauding · opportunistic · profiteering

craving

covetous

Eagerly wanting others' possessions

lusting · desiring · hungering · thirsting · pining · coveting · wanting · hankering · itching · salivating

Opposites
manner of acquiring/keeping resources

avariciouslygenerously

With free-giving spirit

charitably · liberally · magnanimously · bountifully · munificently

degree of material attachment

avariciouslyascetically

In self-denying manner

sparingly · abstemiously · frugally · temperately · simply

Family

avaricious, avariciousness

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