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means
(adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
avaricious, greedy, prehensile, covetous, grasping, grabby
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(adjective) lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"
meanspirited, ungenerous
means
(adjective) unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
stingy, ungenerous
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