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ˈmoney-grubber
[See grubber 3.]
= prec.
1840Bentley's Miscellany VIII. 449 The money-grubber, pent up in a close city. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xxxii. 333 And so, they've turned you over..to the old money-grubber. 1862Thornbury Turner II. 258 Was this..the mere money-grubber and sordid Harpagon? 1932A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 361 It's terrifying what can be done by people who have a monopoly of means of propaganda—private money-grubbers.
So ˈmoney-grubbing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xx, The whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxxii, They have become absorbed in money-grubbing and what they call industry. |