avaro

Es demasiado avaro por ser tan rico: for such a rich man, he is too miserly.

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

Es demasiado avaro para ser tan rico: He is too miserly to be so rich.

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

-- ¡Más fácil es que al muy avaro se le haya ocurrido heredarnos

Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

Todo cayó en poder nuestro: It all fell to us, at the start, mas mi capitán, avaro, but my greedy captain, at leisure, puso mi parte en secuestro; confiscated my part: reñimos, fui yo más diestro we fought, I had more art,

Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

"Un imperatore instabile e vario; un re di Francia sdegnoso e pauroso; un re d'Inghilterra ricco, feroce, e cupido di gloria; _un re di Spagna taccagno e avaro_; per gli altri re, io no li conosco."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

[127] The miser, _o verdadeiro avaro_ (III. 287), is barely mentioned.

Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501

Aurique tempedate dives Nobilium pater unionum Ganges, avaro gemmea fepties Tributa folvit Nereidum patri,

Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791