Examples of using "Avaro" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom's greedy.
He may be rich, but he is stingy.
What a cheapskate!
He was mean.
He's stingy, isn't he?
He is mean.
He's very stingy, isn't he?
Tom was greedy.
Tom is very greedy, isn't he?
Tom can't be that mean.
- Tom's greedy.
- Tom is greedy.
Tom was greedy.
Tom is miserly.
Tom is very stingy.
Tom is stingy, isn't he?
He wasn't mean.
He's quite mean.
- Tom's greedy.
- Tom is greedy.
- Tom's mean.
- Tom is mean.
He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.
Tom isn't greedy.
Tom seems mean.
Tom isn't mean.
Why are you always so mean?
Why are you so stingy?
- I think Tom is greedy.
- I think that Tom is greedy.
Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.