hoardful
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[edit]hoardful (comparative more hoardful, superlative most hoardful)
- Tending to hoard things; miserly.
- 2004, Neil Rolde, Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians, page 293:
- The white supreme non-Indian has showed his lesson well Of how he saved the Penobscot [River], by polluting it to hell With the hoardful Great Northern, snatching Indian property And the lily white scummed tanneries, pumping colors in the sea.
- 2007, Ellen Cooney, A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies, page 10:
- He was a competent lawyer, and he was rich, and neither overly greedy nor overly hoardful, which was true of all Heaths.
- 2016, Allan M. Cross, The Whisperings of a Wandering Soul, page 70:
- I used to be a teacher Of knowledge I was a giver, not hoardful keeper