pelf
Example Sentences
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It borrowed until it couldn't borrow anymore to pay for a slew of programs, public employee pensions and other pelf it couldn't afford.
From US News ● May 26, 2016
Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world."
From Time Magazine Archive
But the fight was untainted because they were all honorable men who play golf for glory and not for pelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, they cannot know That my toil through heat, through tempest and snow, While it seemed for naught but a struggle for pelf, Was more for them, far more, than myself.
From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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Society and Solitude
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