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Перевод: avaricious

[прилагательное]
алчный; жадный

Тезаурус:

1. At some point in the days following James's death, there was a spectacular public row between Beaton and Arran; Beaton, asserting the advantages of power-sharing in a way which hardly conformed to his natural inclinations, insisted that the Gang of Four Regents was certainly preferable to one, and particularly if that one was a member of the Hamilton family, whom he described as "cruel murderers, oppressors of innocents, proud, avaricious, double and false".
2. THERE'S not much seasonal goodwill floating about in Mo' Money, a violent, sexist, avaricious little offering from black actor Damon Wayans, who co-starred with Bruce Willis in that violent, sexist epic The Last Boy Scout.
3. In the mythology of modern soccer, the "scout", an expert in a shabby raincoat has been replaced by the more avaricious figure of the "agent", the character with the car-phone who along with the club chairman has become the financial "Lucifer" of football.
4. Football people were far safer, although a man from the Football Association once wrote in pained protest at the implication that Premier League chairmen were a bunch of avaricious mediocrities with the industrial attitudes of 19th century mill owners.
5. When a well proportioned quantity of water is passed over the unequal surface of a richly coloured rock, which thus aided, glows with borrowed brightness and augmented beauty on the delighted wanderer's gaze, the spectacle is replete with dazzling fascination, and the mind most avaricious of enjoyment can covet no more.
6. During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression, Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler.
7. He described them as cowardly, hesitant, selfish, timorous, suspicious, fearful, parsimonious, miserly, small-minded, ill-humoured and avaricious.
8. Magda Lupescu was held to have been an avaricious and pernicious influence on Carol II.
9. His death, while preaching a crusade in 1253, robbed the diocese of its best-loved leader, a welcome change from some of his more avaricious fellows on the bench, and gave it its greatest religious and, ultimately, financial asset.
10. He is wonderfully avaricious, devious and a genius at avoiding parting with even a sou, all to great comic effect.
11. Balboa - as avaricious, arrogant and adventurous as any of his brother conquistadores - decided in an instant that he must go and see for himself.
12. Boyd believed firmly that all women were incurably avaricious and was certain that, once Olga knew about the book, she would try to squeeze most of the proceeds of it out of Hank; and, to his credit, he was determined that this should not happen.
13. They also enlisted the help of John Cator MP "a mean, avaricious money-lender very much employed by men of fortune in trafficking for annuities, reversions and post obits."