avarous

Adjective

 * 1)  Avaricious.
 * 2) * 1862, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams, page 199:
 * It is a just matter of lamentation when souls which have been clad with zeal as with scarlet, constantly forward for the glory of God, fall to such apostasy as with Demas to embrace the dunghill of this world, and with an avarous hausture to lick up the mud of corruption.