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lucre

noun as in money, profits

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At this point in his life, Denton has enough filthy lucre in his bank account to affect a certain lack of interest in the stuff.

Far beyond his well-earned lucre, this is the reason to applaud Radcliffe the most.

America with lakes of lucre, waves of wampum, a Superstorm Sandy of simoleons, a Hurricane Katrina of cash.

He should stop wasting his time taunting Rick Perry with penny-ante bets and put his lucre to good use.

It was for no lucre of gain I took you and your swash-buckler, your Don Diego yonder, under my poor roof.

Let us no longer cheat our consciences by talking of filthy lucre.

Who made unfair use of government information to speculate in the funds for the sake of "filthy lucre?"

We are less lucky in that respect; we have to cast our pearls before swine too often, and all for the sake of filthy lucre.'

Had not another of the selected twelve betrayed for paltry lucre?

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lucre, such as: capital, cash, earnings, funds, gain, and gate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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