money-grubbing

British  

adjective

1. informal seeking greedily to obtain money at every opportunity

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Other Word Forms

• money-grubber noun

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

This one concerns a set of statements he made in 2019 accusing Carroll of being a liar and a money-grubbing left-wing operative who was not his “type.”

From Slate

But the light that she turns on Pinochet and his money-grubbing, self-justifying descendants is not merely investigative in nature.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• acquisitive
• selfish
• unscrupulous