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

In Balzac are found the two contradictory traits of the money-grubber and the spendthrift.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Now I am no money-grubber, but I will not give my uncle the satisfaction of robbing me of my fortune, which may be useful to both of us by and by.

From A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa by Haggard, Henry Rider