Thesaurus / lucre
FEEDBACKHow to use lucre in a sentence
It was for no lucre of gain I took you and your swash-buckler, your Don Diego yonder, under my poor roof.
THE FORTUNES OF NIGELSIR WALTER SCOTTLet us no longer cheat our consciences by talking of filthy lucre.
A WINDOW IN THRUMSJ. M. BARRIEWho made unfair use of government information to speculate in the funds for the sake of "filthy lucre?"
SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE THE THIRD TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE FOURTH, VOLUME II (OF 2)LADY ANNE HAMILTONWe are less lucky in that respect; we have to cast our pearls before swine too often, and all for the sake of filthy lucre.'
BABYLON, VOLUME 2 (OF 3)GRANT ALLENHad not another of the selected twelve betrayed for paltry lucre?
HOW FRANCE BUILT HER CATHEDRALSELIZABETH BOYLE O'REILLYInto their calculations, ideas of lucre did not enter, money had no value.
UNEXPLORED SPAINABEL CHAPMANWhen Henley was once accused that he did all for lucre, he retorted that some do nothing for it.
HAUNTED LONDONWALTER THORNBURYIt is not my custom to admit people into my house for the sake of lucre.
THE BIBLE IN SPAINGEORGE BORROWYou are all after the filthy lucre, wantin' to live on other folks.'
THE BOOK OF THE BUSHGEORGE DUNDERDALEDonning a bright smile the Babe approaches the farmer and presses the lucre into his honest palm.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 153, SEPT. 26, 1917VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO LUCRE
- abundance
- affluence
- assets
- belongings
- bounty
- cache
- capital
- cash
- clover
- commodities
- copiousness
- cornucopia
- dough
- estate
- fortune
- funds
- gold
- goods
- hoard
- holdings
- lap of luxury
- long green
- lucre
- luxuriance
- luxury
- means
- opulence
- pelf
- plenitude
- plenty
- possessions
- profusion
- property
- prosperity
- prosperousness
- revenue
- riches
- richness
- security
- stocks and bonds
- store
- substance
- substantiality
- treasure
- velvet
- worth
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