Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dealing with money (in a grasping way).
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Examples
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The traders in the room seemed particularly excited to see the actor, snapping several photos of him and complimenting his money-mongering.
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This teaching deserves a great deal of attention in the current world where materialism aggravated by money-mongering culture growing through de-humanization process has stultified human minds.
Learning without practice: colorful flower without scent 2009
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Similarly, money-mongering politicians who bargain for their own sale, have been engaged in further criminalizing politics, especially in the developing countries.
Remembering the 60th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2008
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I find it interesting that our billionaire Mayor, whose wealth is supposed to protect him from undue influence by money-mongering outside influence, should still be so beholden to the development and real estate interests.
Department of Building Official Is Corrupt, Lies, Gets Arrested Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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Should politics be captured by money-mongering adventurists, nothing in human society will remain within the human ethical framework.
Criminalization of Politics and Impunity: Chief Human Rights Concerns in Nepal 2008
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Base and grovelling as they were, these money-mongering Jews felt, in all that remnant of their souls which was not yet eaten away by infidelity and avarice, that the Son of Man was right.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897
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A sea of strange countenances encompassed her, and now and again when some particularly murky wave rolled by, a wave of men whose faces bespoke all the crimes of money-mongering, she and the Marquis exchanged glances of deep sadness.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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He had been sinking from day to day, stricken to the heart by his country's ingratitude, dying of that abominable charge of money-mongering and thieving; he who was so upright and so loyal, who had devoted his whole life to the Republic!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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A sea of strange countenances encompassed her, and now and again when some particularly murky wave rolled by, a wave of men whose faces bespoke all the crimes of money-mongering, she and the Marquis exchanged glances of deep sadness.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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He had been sinking from day to day, stricken to the heart by his country's ingratitude, dying of that abominable charge of money-mongering and thieving; he who was so upright and so loyal, who had devoted his whole life to the Republic!
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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