money-grubbing

adjective

1. informal,  seeking greedily to obtain money at every opportunity

Other Word Forms

• money-grubber noun

Example Sentences

There’s no use crying over might-have-beens, but this was an opportunity the climate lobby missed through its vast stupidity and dishonesty, from its constant overplaying of climate doom, to its hysterical denigration of anyone who raised a question, to its shoddy, money-grubbing lawsuits against big oil.

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All of which is to say that Pearson doesn’t believe any of the narratives that have emerged since Iamaleava’s messy split from Tennessee about the money-grubbing, pajama-wearing kid who can’t read defenses and might struggle to quickly master a new offense.

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A mother’s disappearance comes into the narrative, then fades; a money-grubbing son arrives, then steps off the stage.

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It was the language of heroes and villains, the shooter as cold-blooded killer or culture warrior, Thompson as money-grubbing CEO bleeding Americans dry or good family man bleeding out on the street.

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Republicans: A bunch of homophobic, money-grubbing, greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-lifing, lethal injecting, immigrant-hating hypocrites.

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Related Words

• acquisitive 
• selfish 
• unscrupulous