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单词 money-grubbing
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money-grubbingn.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌɡrʌbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməniˌɡrəbɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., grubbing n.
Etymology: < money n. + grubbing n., after money-grubber n.
The acquisition or accumulation of money by sordid or contemptible methods; avarice; wholesale commercialism.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > gaining or amassing money > in an irregular way > specific greedily or avariciously
money-grubbing1846
1846 Littell's Living Age 11 July 82/2 The desire of the traders in newspapers now is..to render such literature as they put forth, tributary to this soul-degrading money-grubbing.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxxii They have become absorbed in money-grubbing and what they call industry.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker i. 14 He fought in that daily battle of money-grubbing, with a kind of sad-eyed loyalty like a martyr's.
1919 E. Hemingway Let. 7 Aug. (2011) I. 201 If you want to..cut loose from the damned dirty money grubbing for a year I'm your man.
1974 J. Banning How I fooled World xix. 76 The consumer society and all the materialism and money-grubbing that goes with it.
1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 July 8/1 Penalising bereaved families for the death of a loved one takes money-grubbing to the lowest possible level.
c2007 D. A. Richards Lost Highway 25 Alex had laughed at him last week: ‘Look where yer money-grubbing got ya.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

money-grubbingadj.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌɡrʌbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməniˌɡrəbɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., grubbing adj.
Etymology: < money n. + grubbing adj., after money-grubber n.
Given to or characterized by the accumulation of money, esp. by sordid or contemptible methods; avaricious.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > bent on or adapted to making gain > influenced by desire for wealth
mercenary1532
Mammonitish1615
merchanticala1618
mammonish1837
money-grubbing1847
mammonistic1882
get-rich-quick1891
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xx. 177 The whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 333/1 A bower of charm to the æsthetic sense in the midst of a dirty money-grubbing eye~soreness.
1936 L. Woolf Let. 23 Dec. (1990) 328 You will, I know, think me obstinate, churlish, and money-grubbing and I dare say I am.
1951 W. C. Williams Autobiogr. xxvii. 158 The stupidity, the calculated viciousness of a money-grubbing society such as I knew.
1986 P. Booth Palm Beach xvii. 254 Where is the fat money-grubbing cow?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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