money-grubbing
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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
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 ● Dec. 5, 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
I didn't volunteer to support corrupt, money-grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Arthur shall have his fair share, which is more, I believe, than he'd have done for me; but I hate squalid money-grubbing.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
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