Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seeking of a fortune by marriage.
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Examples
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This true story of a mid-18th century English heiress duped into a marriage with an abusive, masochistic, fortune-hunting monster is jaw-droppingly fascinating.
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Asked whether she herself attracted envy from fortune-hunting ladies—Grandy Jersey was one of the richest men in England—Virginia sounds surprised.
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
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Mike encounters Sally, who has tired of the fortune-hunting prince and of being a press target.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Mike encounters Sally, who has tired of the fortune-hunting prince and of being a press target.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Mike encounters Sally, who has tired of the fortune-hunting prince and of being a press target.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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Mike encounters Sally, who has tired of the fortune-hunting prince and of being a press target.
Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008
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An Anatol arrives -- the fortune-hunting son of the lover, now dead -- who promptly seduces Erika and gets her pregnant.
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In scuttling Catherine Sloper's engagement to a fortune-hunting scoundrel, her father not only "breaks the spring" of all affection in her but also deprives her of the opportunity to have children (and himself to have descendants).
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In scuttling Catherine Sloper's engagement to a fortune-hunting scoundrel, her father not only "breaks the spring" of all affection in her but also deprives her of the opportunity to have children (and himself to have descendants).
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The singer in the shower with a little boy (exonerated); the down-on-his-luck actor charged with the shooting death of his fortune-hunting wife (also exonerated); and the drug-addled 1960s record producer charged in the point-blank murder of a has-been (or never-was) actress and music club hostess he picked up one night for a little action.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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