money-grubbing
Example Sentences
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It could use more of that bite, especially during a protracted midsection that finds Pinochet lying low with his miserable, money-grubbing descendants.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023
“The main thing,” Zwickel said in a phone interview, “was about bringing out his humanity, making sure he wasn’t just this money-grubbing caricature.”
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023
I didn't volunteer to support corrupt, money-grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022
“This is a money-grubbing story,” said his attorney, Patrick McShane.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2021
He is a huge gob of flesh, which is perhaps animated dimly by some spark of humanity smouldering filthily in a heart cancerous with money-grubbing.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert