money-grubbing
Britishadjective
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Ramírez’s personal politics would be supplanted by crude criminality; beginning as a revolutionary, he ended up as a money-grubbing freelance mercenary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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 ● Sep. 11, 2023
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 ● Sep. 7, 2023
“The main thing,” Zwickel said in a phone interview, “was about bringing out his humanity, making sure he wasn’t just this money-grubbing caricature.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
You fought—alone— For a sublime ideal; I as one Among the money-grubbing multitude.
From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
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