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

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

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

Nothing leads men to ruin like hankering after pelf.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown