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Meaning of hoardful | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Tending to hoard things; miserly.

Examples

“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.”
“He was a competent lawyer, and he was rich, and neither overly greedy nor overly hoardful, which was true of all Heaths.”
“I used to be a teacher Of knowledge I was a giver, not hoardful keeper”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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