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- adjective
greedy oravaricious
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Examples
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Called a money-grubbing Jew for marrying Sakharov a frequent slur, she longed for a yellow star to blazon on her coat.
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I am thought to be a fickle, money-grubbing orange girl, raised above her station.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Raise property taxes, which Henry George proved only goes to money-grubbing landlords who don't make anything anyway.
James Webb's Macaca, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Sure, insofar as many kids like the fun-loving, money-grubbing world that their teachers keep belittling.
Teaching Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It is NOT the exclusive property of the power-hungry, money-grubbing, thieving, blackmailing SOBs who run Vivendi Universal, (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) and who see music lovers only as clueless marks to be ruthlessly exploited.
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You know him; that greedy, money-grubbing a-hole who browbeat kindly George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life; did his curmudgeonly best to do a whole town in with his avarice and jaw-grinding disdain.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: New Hire Mr. Potter Brings Blue Shield Into the New Year Lorraine Devon Wilke 2012
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But I wish I had enough money and power to prevent them from successfully re-labeling others as lazy, self-interested, money-grubbing purveyors of low expectations.
Meier: White knights and false villains in education Valerie Strauss 2010
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The whole enterprise, like so much else on Bravo, the “affluencer” network, feels like a moldy leftover from the pre-Obama age; the currently fashionable values — humility, intelligence, restraint, style — are eclipsed by money-grubbing witlessness and big-carbon-footprint living.
Real Housewives Make Me Question My Morality | clusterflock 2009
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You know him; that greedy, money-grubbing a-hole who browbeat kindly George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life; did his curmudgeonly best to do a whole town in with his avarice and jaw-grinding disdain.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: New Hire Mr. Potter Brings Blue Shield Into the New Year Lorraine Devon Wilke 2012
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I am thought to be a fickle, money-grubbing orange girl, raised above her station.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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