Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth:
— They are avaricious and will do anything for money.

synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile.

Roget 817a: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish^†.    greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid^†, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.    ... show more

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping etc. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.    ... show more

Roget 957: gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing etc. v.; edacious^†, omnivorous, crapulent^†, swinish.    avaricious etc. 819; selfish etc. 918.    pampered; overfed, overgorged^†.    ... show more

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