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
Ken S. Huang Memphis The whole world is so rotten with reverence for pelf, one is not surprised to see a work of art esteemed only for its cash value.
From Time Magazine Archive
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, during one sweltering London afternoon, a little man of 61, whose brown beard is turning white, set what is believed to be a world's record, yet reaped no plaudits and no pelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its purpose, though, was plain; 'twas simply pelf; Whether a woman wild of glare, Or a colossal man shaving himself, All, all meant money there.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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