lead a merry chase (verb) evade: get away from
Sinonime: acquisitive,
avaricious,
avid, carnivorous,
close, close-fisted,
covetous,
craving,
desirous, devouring,
eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish,
hungry,
impatient,
insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile,
rapacious, ravening,
ravenous,
selfish,
stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted,
voraciousAntonime: abstemious,
benevolent,
charitable,
extravagant, generous,
liberal,
philanthropic