This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.

n. Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

n. Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

n. An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

n. An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

n. An inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; cupidity; greediness, or insatiable desire of gain.

n. Synonyms Avarice, Covetousness, Cupidity, penuriousness, closeness, miserliness, all denote bad qualities, corruptions of the natural instinct of possession. Avarice, literally greediness, a strong desire to get objects of value, has become limited, except in figurative uses, so as to express only a sordid and mastering desire to get wealth. Covetousness and cupidity are not limited to wealth, but may have for their object anything that can be desired, cupidity being directed especially toward material things. Covetousness longs to possess that which belongs to another; hence the prohibition in the tenth commandment (Ex. xx. 17). Cupidity is more active than the others, less groveling, and more ready to snatch from others that which covetousness may wish for without trying to get. See penurious.

n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

n. extreme greed for material wealth

"Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc."

deadly sin    mortal sin    greed   

avaricious    avariciously   

covetousness    cupidity    greed    avariciousness   

greed    meanness    covetousness    cruelty    rapacity    hypocrisy    cupidity    ingratitude    dishonesty    envy