Thesaurus / profiteering
other words for profiteering
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- crooked
- fraudulent
- nefarious
- rotten
- shady
- unethical
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- base
- bent
- debauched
- exploiting
- fixed
- foul
- open
- padded
- reprobate
- tainted
- bribable
- double-dealing
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast and loose
- gone to the dogs
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- knavish
- mercenary
- on the take
- perfidious
- praetorian
- racket up
- snide
- treacherous
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- wide open
opposites of profiteering
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He’s used data to show profiteering at a mental health hospital and questionable practices in local law enforcement agencies.
PROPUBLICA HIRES REPORTER NEIL BEDI TO COVER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIESBY PROPUBLICADECEMBER 1, 2020PROPUBLICA
It has lobbied public-pension investors and members of Congress to press the firm to return its dividends to the company, saying its profiteering has put Prospect’s safety-net hospitals at risk.
INVESTORS EXTRACTED $400 MILLION FROM A HOSPITAL CHAIN THAT SOMETIMES COULDN’T PAY FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES OR GAS FOR AMBULANCESBY PETER ELKIND WITH DORIS BURKESEPTEMBER 30, 2020PROPUBLICA
There were harsh laws against profiteering in France in 1793—England in 1919 found it necessary to make quite similar laws.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
However delicate a definition is framed for 'profiteering,' these packers have preyed upon the people unconscionably.
How, too, can its existence be proved, for high fixed prices are not always an evidence of profiteering methods.
Thus Nehemiah would have had ample precedent to fill his own coffers by injustice, profiteering and worse: he had the power.
THE BOOK OF COURAGEJOHN THOMSON FARIS
And none of us are going to stand profiteering, and broken pledges, and that kind of thing!'
ELIZABETH'S CAMPAIGNMRS. HUMPHREY WARD
Unfortunately, illegitimate "profiteering" has taken place in the course of every war.
ENGLAND, CANADA AND THE GREAT WARLOUIS-GEORGES DESJARDINS
Illegitimate "profiteering" is one of the deplorable effects of a war; it is never its real cause.
ENGLAND, CANADA AND THE GREAT WARLOUIS-GEORGES DESJARDINS
Treason blotted the pages illumined by heroism, and profiteering tarnished peoples redeemed by the devotion of their sons.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE GREAT WARA. F. POLLARD
WORDS RELATED TO PROFITEERING
- base
- bent
- bribable
- crooked
- debauched
- double-dealing
- exploiting
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast and loose
- fixed
- foul
- fraudulent
- gone to the dogs
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- knavish
- mercenary
- nefarious
- on the take
- open
- padded
- perfidious
- praetorian
- profiteering
- racket up
- reprobate
- rotten
- shady
- snide
- tainted
- treacherous
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- wide open
- bestiality
- breach of trust
- bribery
- bribing
- crime
- crookedness
- demoralization
- depravity
- exploitation
- extortion
- fiddling
- flagitiousness
- fraud
- fraudulency
- graft
- immorality
- jobbery
- malfeasance
- misrepresentation
- nepotism
- on the take
- payoff
- payola
- perversion
- profiteering
- racket
- shadiness
- shady deal
- shuffle
- skimming
- squeeze
- turpitude
- unscrupulousness
- venality
- vice
- villainy
- wickedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.