Mr. Pennypacker's avaricious appetite couldn't be contained.    From LearnThat.org. 

They are avaricious and will do anything for money.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The target of their anger is an "avaricious" business community.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It was a kind of avaricious generosity, by which flattery was rather purchased than genius rewarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference

Old Melmoth died in the course of that night, and died as he had lived, in a kind of avaricious delirium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference

I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

And let the Government look well to its avaricious agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Hatto at length rendered up his cruel and avaricious soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

"No indeed!" replied the old woman, who was very avaricious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference

Beware of an avaricious and hard-hearted neighbour or friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

He was harsh and avaricious, and quite embedded in material interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Greed, sometimes sat in the councils, and the avaricious bent the rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

The avaricious banks remain too big to fail and, unfortunately, too big to jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Banks Pay Fines -- Won't Admit to Crimes Or Do Time] Reference

This is told by the enemies of Columbus to prove a sordid and avaricious nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

When a woman is avaricious she will let nothing stand between her and her desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

And Gertrudis, the avaricious lawyer who handles many of this country's adoptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina García's "The Lady Matador's Hotel," reviewed by Carolyn See] Reference

She was, so runs the story, an avaricious woman, who never was known to do good to any one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

She is also, unfortunately, betrothed to Lord Wessex (Colin Firth), an avaricious aristocrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brush Up Your Shakespeare] Reference

The Marquis de Vaudreuil de Cavagnac sanctioned the avaricious exactions and dealings of Bigot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

She was the daughter of an avaricious farmer who lived at "Les Marches," in the parish of the Forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Galloway had that passion, too -- I have yet to meet the millionaire who is not avaricious and even stingy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Prince, as an avaricious heir follows up, even to the tomb, the last glimpses of the will of a dying relative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

His discovery, and Wolfe's point, is not just that the avaricious have raw nerve endings in all their possessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference

However, urban women with better educations and affluent parents have their own resources and are less avaricious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Chinese Women Too Picky?] Reference

The avaricious light in his eyes as he noted the money she carried on the train, had first warned her against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

Terribly avaricious, while the Intendant sold licenses to trade, the Governor and his Secretary sold brandy to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

He was also a harsh man, and being extremely avaricious, heaped up treasure which he guarded with the utmost care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

And thus an event contrary to the legislator's intention took place; for the state was poor, the individuals avaricious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

That one of his avaricious disposition could thus forego such a prospect of advantage was the occasion of much speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

The Vizier of Nourgehan was avaricious; but for fear of displeasing his master, he concealed that vice with the utmost care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

He was fond of display, but it is doubtful if he was more avaricious than most persons who lived before and have lived since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Immediately the other dervishes surrounded him, and screamed out, as from a cave, "Glutton! impudent creature! avaricious man!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

It's facilitated by avaricious agencies, perpetuated by accountability-free parents and made possible by self-loathing nerds like me.    From Wordnik.com.  ['TUTORING' RICH KIDS COST ME MY DREAMS] Reference

They think that it is the grand characteristic of Columbia's children to be prejudiced, opinionated, selfish, avaricious, and unjust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

The sheer scale of their giving is inspirational, particularly at a time when the rich are routinely assumed to be uncaring and avaricious.    From Wordnik.com.  [It will take more than Bill Gates to save the world] Reference