pecunious

Example Sentences

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No other country has so many newly pecunious consumers clamouring for stuff.

From Economist • Mar. 8, 2012

Not that she's had much experience of limos: her life has not been a pecunious one.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2010

Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane; His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Munich's gala atmosphere has also drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

This hunting after pecunious strangers is so systematically carried on that it might be dignified by the name of a science.

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.