moneygrubber
[ muhn-ee-gruhb-er ]
/ ˈmʌn iˌgrʌb ər /
noun Informal.
a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
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a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; spendthrift.
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Example sentences from the Web for moneygrubber
The Provençal was a rusé, an intrigant, and a money-grubber in his old age, and proved his plebeian ancestry.
Unicorns|James HunekerIn Balzac are found the two contradictory traits of the money-grubber and the spendthrift.
An Englishman in Paris|Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam