money-grubbing
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money-grubbing
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From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).
adjective more money-grubbing · most money-grubbing · moneygrubbing · money-grabbing
- Fiercely avaricious for money. Nor will you think this ſtrange, when I tell you, that, take him out of his rote of official buſtle, and the jargon of Change-alley, he had not an idea beyond that money-grubbing ſphere, and was ſcarce not a born ideot, with a head as contracted as his heart[.]
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title = {money-grubbing},
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