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

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

You are evidently so enthralled by your mucky pelf and your self-serving stratagems that you have forgotten what your trusteeship means.

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

He that hath enough and over and is niggard with his pelf Will be hated of his people and left free to praise himself.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold