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  I had to start taking my ill-got booty home, my cubicle was so crowded with Pez dispensers and Matchbox cars.

Famine 2009

I had to start taking my ill-got booty home, my cubicle was so crowded with Pez dispensers and Matchbox cars.

Famine 2009

So far, Wall Street is still sitting pretty, still giving itself outsized salaries and bonuses, still enjoying its ill-got lucre.

Danny Schechter: Will Financial Crisis Lead To Real Changes? 2009

For those who think that the Marketplace is irrational, for class-envy types, & for those who think that the private sector should pay a higher percentage of its ill-got gains to the government, just look at this as a law-firm & ultimately their Big Oil, Big Pharma, & Big Finance clients, subsidy for a government program: SCOTUS clerkships.

A $200,000 bonus to Supreme Court law clerks for signing on with a law firm? Ann Althouse 2007

Shure no good ever come of ill-got money not that she was iver to blame.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

I gathered up most of my ill-got earnings, which I had been careful to keep in a handy place and in highly transportable form, stole a flier, and was out of there as fast as I could manage.

Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981

When, however, his (ill-got) wealth is snatched by others, he wishes for a king.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

"What comes with sin goes with sorrow," and he resolved to submit his money to the water-ordeal, thinking that the ill-got money would sink to the bottom, and what was honestly acquired swim on the top.

Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

After this, let mortals flatter themselves with golden dreams, let the weary miser heap up ill-got wealth for many years; 'twas but yesterday this lifeless thing was priding in its riches, and had fixt the very day he thought to return.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Mr. Barter, then, had eight thousand pounds in ready money, was liable, if discovered, to penal servitude, and was unable to touch a farthing of his ill-got gains.

Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray