money-grubbing
Example Sentences
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Ramírez’s personal politics would be supplanted by crude criminality; beginning as a revolutionary, he ended up as a money-grubbing freelance mercenary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“The main thing,” Zwickel said in a phone interview, “was about bringing out his humanity, making sure he wasn’t just this money-grubbing caricature.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
I didn't volunteer to support corrupt, money-grubbing contractors, nor work for commanders only interested in themselves.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Truman’s ostensible modesty in his presidential retirement is commonly used as a reproach to his money-grubbing successors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
To give Rhodes his due, he was not the money-grubbing man one would think, judging by his companions.
From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Catherine, Princess Radziwill
