money-grubbing

adjective

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

Derived Forms

• ˈmoney-ˌgrubber, noun

Example Sentences

Arthur shall have his fair share, which is more, I believe, than he'd have done for me; but I hate squalid money-grubbing.

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You've no notion of how sordid and money-grubbing and English the mass of our people are becoming.

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But he was a money-grubbing old dog, was Boulger, and it cost me a cool hundred to bring him up to the scratch.

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Garrick was accused of money-grubbing, and his weakness in that respect was the subject of more than one smart jest by Foote.

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To give Rhodes his due, he was not the money-grubbing man one would think, judging by his companions.

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