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

Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf.

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

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