Translation for "avariento" to english

Avariento

adjective

• miserly
• money-grubbing

Translation examples

miserly adjective

El Señor no es avariento hasta donde su educación... está interesado.
Sir don't be miserly as far as their education... is concerned.

Tampoco sé si mi madre era avarienta o austera.
I am not sure if my mother was miserly or frugal.

Harimohini se adelantó a saludarle, diciendo: —Cuando Dios se pone a conceder gracias, no se muestra avariento.
Harimohini came forward to greet her, saying: "When God bestows his favours, He is not miserly about it.

Si no se malgasta en pequeñeces, su riqueza de fuerza se ahorrará con avarienta estrechez para afrontar las calamidades realmente grandes.
There is no squandering on trifles, and its wealth of strength is saved up with miserly strictness to meet the really big calamities.

Que si la prima Valentina Sorolla venía de Morelia Michoacán a visitarlos, cosa rara pues tenía fama de solterona recluida que ni a misa iba aunque sí al banco puntualmente a recoger la mesada que le legó su avariento padre don Amílcar.
And Cousin Valentina Sorolla came from Morelia Michoacán to visit them, which was very unusual since she was known to be a reclusive spinster who did not even go to Mass though she did go to the bank punctually for the monthly allowance left to her by her miserly father, Don Amílcar.

Lo había conocido en casa del profesor Peter Wheeler, de Oxford, un hispanista y lusitanista eminente ya jubilado, el hombre que más sabe en la tierra sobre el Príncipe Henrique el Navegante y uno de los que más sobre Cervantes, hoy Sir Peter Wheeler y primer ganador del Premio Nebrija de Salamanca, destinado a las mayores lumbreras de su especialidad o campo y —algo sorprendente en el mundo universitario, tacaño o depauperado según los casos— dotado con una cantidad de dinero no desdeñable, lo cual hizo que los exprimidos ojos de sus avarientos o menesterosos colegas internacionales se posaran en él por penúltima vez con envidia.
I had met him at the home of Professor Peter Wheeler, of Oxford, an eminent and now retired Hispanist and Lusitanist, the man who knows more than anyone else in the world about Prince Henry the Navigator and one of those who knows most about Cervantes, and who is now Sir Peter Wheeler and the first winner of the Premio Nebrija de Salamanca, awarded to the most brilliant members of a particular speciality or field and — rather surprisingly in the university world, which is either miserly or impoverished depending on the institution — worth a not insignificant amount of money, which meant that the narrowed eyes of his greedy or needy international colleagues rested enviously upon him on that penultimate occasion.

money-grubbing adjective

Eso resulta cierto, desde el punto de vista financiero, pero tampoco soy del tipo avariento.
That turns out to be true, financially speaking, but I’m not the money-grubbing type.”

Esos embaucadores avarientos del Consejo Cerrado se niegan a liberar los fondos, ¿podéis creéroslo? —No puedo.
Those money-grubbing swindlers on the Closed Council refuse to release the funds. Can you believe it?” “I cannot.

En realidad, si vinieras a mi sala de consulta te despacharía sin cobrarte siquiera... y eso que soy una vieja avarienta.
In fact, if you came to my consulting room I’d send you away without even collecting a fee – and I’m a money-grubbing old woman.’

– exclamó-. Podría haber matado a Arnold porque lo detestaba a él y su sucia mente avarienta y sus gustos vulgares, ¡pero nunca por sus doscientas cincuenta mil libras!
‘I might have killed Arnold because I loathed him, and his money-grubbing mind, and his vulgar tastes, but not for his two hundred and fifty thousand pounds!’