money-grubbing
adjective
seeking greedily to obtain money at every opportunity
money-grubber
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a word derived from
money-grubbing.
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
No doubt he is a money-grubber in the city, and regards artists with contempt.
From In Friendship's Guise by William Murray Graydon
Was he essentially a money-grubber, Granville wondered to himself, as he had thought him at first in the diamond fields in Barolong land?
From What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen
