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
Until the demands are met, the Duvalier regime has fashioned its own means of gathering pelf, at an estimated rate of $6,000,000 a year.
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
Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes� about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who loves thee not is traitor to himself, Traitor is he to God and to the grave, Poor as a miser with his load of pelf, And more unstable than a leeward wave.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
Vocabulary lists containing pelf
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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