avariciously

From avaricious +‎ -ly.

avariciously (comparative more avariciously, superlative most avariciously)

1. In a greedy or self-serving manner.

   Synonym: greedily

   • 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC, page 152:

     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; […]

   • 1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 41, in Liberal Opinions‎, volume 2, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, page 57:

     [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; […]

   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 109:

     [H]is aunt’s yellow cat came along, purring, eyeing the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste [of the medicine].

   • 1954, Iris Murdoch, chapter 15, in Under the Net, London: The Reprint Society, published 1955, page 203:

     At first I kept thinking about the money. […] I invested it avariciously at high rates of interest.