pelf
Example Sentences
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It borrowed until it couldn't borrow anymore to pay for a slew of programs, public employee pensions and other pelf it couldn't afford.
From US News • May 26, 2016
Talented Eugene Istomin invested his pelf wisely, played with both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony when he was barely 17.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are evidently so enthralled by your mucky pelf and your self-serving stratagems that you have forgotten what your trusteeship means.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ken S. Huang Memphis The whole world is so rotten with reverence for pelf, one is not surprised to see a work of art esteemed only for its cash value.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pelf and trinkets that she had upon her Were not demanded.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
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