Money-grubbing

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fiercely avaricious for money. derogatory

    "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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"Tom's a money-grubbing opportunist."

Etymology

From money and grub (“to search for by digging in soil or dirt”).

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