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

He kept enough pelf for comfort, is not "socialistic because of the Crash."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world."

From Time Magazine Archive

They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, they cannot know That my toil through heat, through tempest and snow, While it seemed for naught but a struggle for pelf, Was more for them, far more, than myself.

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll