Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An avaricious or rapacious person.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
moneygrubber .
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Examples
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Look, everyone knows that she's an airhead and a money-grubber, a mooch who took money from Alaska for herself and her family, and a liar extraordinaire.
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How on Earth can any of us take you seriously when your top people are a racist money-grubber who [...]
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If you are in government and you want to serve the public, you have to be tough and thick-skinned, not a greedy money-grubber like Palin who only wants to line her pockets.
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Then, in 1912, Berenson signed the contract with Duveen, whom Walters abhorred as a money-grubber.
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Or the time he told "Insider" that she was a money-grubber.
Levi Johnston's year in video: Much to work out with his future mother-in-law 2010
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Or the time he told "Insider" that she was a money-grubber.
Levi Johnston's year in video: Much to work out with his future mother-in-law 2010
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However, my landlord is not a money-grubber so no worries about any surcharge.
Is There a January Late-Fee Spike? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But if this blogger has behaved very well and has given you great advice for years and years, why would you assume he has the worst of intentions and has suddenly become like that money-grubber scammer?
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His “partner” –- aptly named Sterling -– is a loud-mouthed, profanity-laden, paranoid money-grubber who has all ten fingers stuck in some questionable dealings, dramatically portrayed by Ray Abruzzo.
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The poet inspired by "the death of a beautiful woman" has a life haunted by his young wife's death; the would-be Southern aristocrat must become a New York money-grubber; the hoaxer and student of revenge has his reputation ruined by his own literary executor's posthumous lies; the great exponent of unified effect leaves his only novel unfinished.
princeofcairo: Two Hundred Circling Years princeofcairo 2009
bilby commented on the word money-grubber
Cash-eating termites.
April 27, 2011