money-grubbing
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As Mencken observes, the character, “full of highfalutin fraud and bombast,” attempts “to make the world believe, and even to convince himself, that his trivial and sordid money-grubbing is all altruistic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
“The main thing,” Zwickel said in a phone interview, “was about bringing out his humanity, making sure he wasn’t just this money-grubbing caricature.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
I didn't volunteer to support corrupt, money-grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
“This is a money-grubbing story,” said his attorney, Patrick McShane.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
His education had been conducted on money-grubbing principles; the first word he was taught to spell was gain, and the second, money.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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