money-grubbing

Example Sentences

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I don't care if the money grubbing estates agree to make changes to appease current trends or appetites.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018

Now we're just another bunch of money grubbing, greedy yokels.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016

‘Snobbishness, money grubbing, fear of the boss etc.’ had ceased; class prejudice had gone; comradeship was real and unaffected.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2014

There are many reasons to snipe at the Stones: the money grubbing, the subsumption of art beneath commerce, their willingness to live off past glories by recycling their greatest hits into package after package.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2012

Now the idea of money grubbing is distasteful to me.

From Making Money by Johnson, Owen