Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of money; rich; wealthy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.
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- adjective With
money ,wealthy ;financially independent . - adjective figuratively rich (of quality, etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Southport District Court, they argued he was a "pecunious" penniless New Zealander with no formal ties to Australia and should be ordered to pay the money as a safeguard.
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With the burden of fund-raising gone, incumbents -- whose salary taxpayers pay anyway -- could spend their time actually governing and legislating for their constituents, rather than hosting $1,000 luncheons and groveling at the feet of the most pecunious lobbyist bundlers and donors.
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With the burden of fund-raising gone, incumbents -- whose salary taxpayers pay anyway -- could spend their time actually governing and legislating for their constituents, rather than hosting $1,000 luncheons and groveling at the feet of the most pecunious lobbyist bundlers and donors.
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Humanity has been embroiled in an epic struggle between the pecunious and impoverished since it developed agriculture, abandoned nomadism, and began the acquisition of wealth.
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Aside from the inclusion of our pecunious Zionist friends, the essence of the leadership in the United States has changed little.
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Others, such as John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, harbored contempt for populist notions and pressed for a government dominated by pecunious individuals.
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Working in unison according to the spiritual principles embodied by Jesus Christ in the Synoptic Gospels, the poor, the working class, and the besieged middle class had finally renounced their allegiance to their pecunious over-lords.
Unleashing the Christ Within:Last Hope for the Moribund Soul of a Nation? 2006
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Like eager equestrians breaking green horses, the mass media endeavor to provide the pecunious stratum of society with obedient beasts of burden.
Hell Awaits, America: "Mass Manipulation, Blissful Psychosis, and 7 Easy Ways to Achieve Damnation" 2006
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Virtually every member of humanity barring the pecunious class faces a brutal dilemma.
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Indeed, I'm turning a gimlet-eyed glare on my poor furniture, which--aside from the thirty bookcases, all but one solid oak or pine**--just barely clears the "pecunious graduate student" level.
whichbe commented on the word pecunious
Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.
May 15, 2008