| 单词 | money-grasping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoney-grasping money-grasping adj. ΚΠ 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Expostulatory Odes iii. 11 Perdition catch the money-grasping wretch. 1869 H. Greeley Recoll. Busy Life 522 The lazy, sensual, luxury-loving, money-grasping million enjoy nothing more keenly. 1940 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 11 472/1 Uncle Sam is represented in caricatures by Latin Americans and by Europeans as money-grasping, hard, defiant, and hypocritical. 2000 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 22 Oct. 15 The author's careerism..is rooted in his mercantile childhood milieu—a failed-businessman father, two aggressively money-grasping older brothers. < as lemmas |
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