单词 | money-grubbing |
释义 | money-grubbingn. 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. 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). < n.1846adj.1847 |
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