Translation of "avare" to English

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Dictionary translations for "avare"

avare adjective

avare / avare / avares / avares

mean with money (caractéristique psychologique)

Phrases with "avare" (1)

avare de paroles - laconic

Contexts with "avare"

C'est vrai qu'il est riche, mais il est avare. It is true he is rich, but he is a miser.

Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village. Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.

Mon voisin est un vieil avare grippe-sou qui ne te donnerait même pas l'heure qu'il est. My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.

Il a tendance à considérer toute chose sous un angle pratique et n'est ni avare ni prodigue. He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.

Un avare amasse de l'argent non pas parce qu'il est prudent mais parce qu'il est avide. A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.

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