Example Sentences

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He has been called a liar, a loser and a money-grubber in court.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Grandma Nora encourages Ray to search for PopPop’s instrument in her attic despite the jeers of Ray’s mother, a Dickensian money-grubber who wants him to quit his “foolishness,” get his GED and work at Popeyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

The most troubling thing about “Anonymous” is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011

His neighbours also said he was a money-grubber; a mere tradesman, but withal a proud and even prosperous man.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

Just as the tendency to get may grow on you, until you become a rapacious and stingy money-grubber, so the tendency to spend may grow on her.

From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold