"an avaricious" is a grammatically correct part of a sentence and can be used in written English
It can be used when describing someone who is excessively greedy or covetous. Example: The new CEO was known to be an avaricious individual, constantly seeking ways to cut costs and increase profits at the expense of his employees' well-being.
Even Christopher Hitchens could not see the problem with prostitution, beyond the fact that a prostitute he met ("an avaricious bitch") did not seem to like him very much.
Ms. O'Hara infused "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide" with an avaricious glee.
Some critics have depicted Landau as an avaricious Svengali, a Colonel Parker, or worse.
She played an avaricious landlady in "The Lower Depths" (1957) and a scheming wife in "Yojimbo" (1961).
In contrast, today's widely held caricature of an avaricious, selfish and manipulative crook is to me just plain wrong.
After Columbus returned from the New World, an avaricious, corrupt Venetian bridge builder named John Cabot sniffed possibility.
Jackson family lawyers, who favour the broadcasts, have signalled they will cast the concert promoter as an avaricious corporate bully.
The feeling that comes through from this magnificent heap of treasures is not of an avaricious woman, bolstered by trophy acquisitions.
While the fee awards you freebies and "heaps of exclusive content", I wondered whether this wasn't a little avaricious – a calculated money-earner on the band's part.
But the stylish group in the Met's show — a lubricious, avaricious Danaë; a Fall of Man engineered by the weirdest serpent in European art, her Barbie-doll face a snickering study in toxic cuteness; an apple-cheeked, pippin-breasted Pomona seduced by the gardener Vertumnus, disguised as a hag — all demolish the assumption that Goltzius as painter was half the artist he had been as printmaker.
This style creates a sense of intimacy, which is undermined by a chilly sensibility, a frankly avaricious way of looking at the world, and an aversion to sentiment.
