avariciously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a greedy or self-serving manner.
Example Sentences
- "Thus much I had to ſay; and, I ſuppose, vvhat may be anough to them vvho are not avariciously bent othervviſe, touching the likelieſt means to remove hirelings out of the church; […]"
- "[B]usiness, which was originally designed to promote health, and circulate interchanged conveniencies, is now for the most part avariciously carried on, to swell the coffers of the individual by impoverishing the species; […]"
- "[H]is aunt’s yellow cat came along, purring, eyeing the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste [of the medicine]."
- "At first I kept thinking about the money. […] I invested it avariciously at high rates of interest."
Etymology
Etymology tree English avaricious Middle English -ly English -ly English avariciously From avaricious + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more avariciously (comparative)
most avariciously (superlative)