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And, in principle, these hard-nosed commercialists are on board.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011

The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser.

From Time Magazine Archive

No sportsman needs a larger bag than the revised schedule; and commercialists should not be allowed to kill big game anywhere, at any time.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Of course there were votaries of pleasure of all ranks there—rakish young surgeons, fast young clerks and commercialists, occasional dandies of the guard regiments, and the rest.

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Another way is to deliver art from the clutches of its worshippers, and by worshippers I mean the idolaters and the commercialists of art.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden