lucre
Example Sentences
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All that lucre couldn’t override the prevailing sentiment among discontented voters who were ready, after nearly eight years of the uber-outsider Arnold Schwarzenegger, to embrace the tried-and-true experience of the reemergent Jerry Brown.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
And he's making it very clear that he will not be happy if they don't come across with plenty of lucre to fill his royal coffers.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024
The family’s transubstantiation of lucre into religious hardware was pretty brassy, because — not to put too fine a point on this — the Sassoons were drug kingpins.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
They’d rather keep selling expensive services to rich people, with the lucre and status that brings.
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2022
Then she tried a child’s story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing lucre
Jane Eyre
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This Week In Words: November 2–8, 2019
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