mammon

Example Sentences

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But there are signs in 2020 that mammon is making a comeback.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2020

A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017

As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2016

But for Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University, the conference's obsession with the present, and with mammon, is short-sighted.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2016

In most cases his deceit was rather of that negative sort which seeks to make to itself friends betimes of the mammon of unrighteousness.

From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)