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Definition of money-grubbing in English: money-grubbing(also money-grabbing) adjective informal Overeager to make money; grasping. 〈非正式〉财迷的，贪财的 money-grubbing speculators 贪财的投机商。 Example sentencesExamples - What ever happened to all those tweed-jacket-and-blue-jean-garbed professors who liked nothing more than to thumb their noses at the money-grubbing business set?
- Just that, in our cynical money-grubbing society, everybody has their price.
- Athletes and owners would start looking like heroes instead of money-grubbing parasites.
- Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers - money-grubbing corporations do that!
- Peter's employers - an exploitative wrestling manager and the cynical, money-grubbing newspaper boss - do nothing to salvage big business's sinister image.
- The conventional wisdom is that the country's intelligentsia today are apolitical and money-grubbing, more interested in jobs than democracy.
- If we are made to submit this application, the world will see us for what we really are - money-grubbing, greedy, corporate thieves.
- It has been taken over by large monopolies - money-grubbing companies.
- He can't seem to keep a job, he loses at cards, and he's married to a horrible, money-grubbing, demanding shrew of a wife.
- Another movie was a comedy about a backstabbing, money-grubbing family positioning to collect its grandfather's riches after his death.
- You're a con man and a money-grubbing sellout.
- On the contrary, they are all self-centred, money-grubbing social climbers.
- Today, he's a greedy, money-grubbing official.
- Some argue that we are witnessing the rise of a shallow, money-grubbing generation.
- Hart comes across as anything but a money-grubbing fool.
- The only people who know you're here besides those money-grubbing chits are family.
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists.
- The money-grubbing cronies somehow didn't get around to restoring trade relations until two weeks ago.
- The picture painted of Burrell was one of a sick, sad, money-grubbing traitor - but every word was false.
- This is not a democratic sport of the people, which has been betrayed by some money-grubbing traitors.
Synonyms acquisitive, avaricious, grasping, money-grabbing, greedy, rapacious, mercenary, materialistic North American informal grabby rare quaestuary, Mammonish, Mammonistic
Definition of money-grubbing in US English: money-grubbing(also money-grabbing) adjectiveˈmənē ˌɡrəbiNGˈməni ˌɡrəbɪŋ informal Overeager to make money; grasping. 〈非正式〉财迷的，贪财的 money-grubbing speculators 贪财的投机商。 Example sentencesExamples - You're a con man and a money-grubbing sellout.
- Some argue that we are witnessing the rise of a shallow, money-grubbing generation.
- The only people who know you're here besides those money-grubbing chits are family.
- This is not a democratic sport of the people, which has been betrayed by some money-grubbing traitors.
- The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists.
- What ever happened to all those tweed-jacket-and-blue-jean-garbed professors who liked nothing more than to thumb their noses at the money-grubbing business set?
- Hart comes across as anything but a money-grubbing fool.
- It has been taken over by large monopolies - money-grubbing companies.
- The conventional wisdom is that the country's intelligentsia today are apolitical and money-grubbing, more interested in jobs than democracy.
- The money-grubbing cronies somehow didn't get around to restoring trade relations until two weeks ago.
- Peter's employers - an exploitative wrestling manager and the cynical, money-grubbing newspaper boss - do nothing to salvage big business's sinister image.
- Today, he's a greedy, money-grubbing official.
- If we are made to submit this application, the world will see us for what we really are - money-grubbing, greedy, corporate thieves.
- Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers - money-grubbing corporations do that!
- Athletes and owners would start looking like heroes instead of money-grubbing parasites.
- He can't seem to keep a job, he loses at cards, and he's married to a horrible, money-grubbing, demanding shrew of a wife.
- On the contrary, they are all self-centred, money-grubbing social climbers.
- The picture painted of Burrell was one of a sick, sad, money-grubbing traitor - but every word was false.
- Another movie was a comedy about a backstabbing, money-grubbing family positioning to collect its grandfather's riches after his death.
- Just that, in our cynical money-grubbing society, everybody has their price.
Synonyms acquisitive, avaricious, grasping, money-grabbing, greedy, rapacious, mercenary, materialistic
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