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moneygrubbing

moneygrubbing is the alternative form of money-grubbing.

Meaning of money-grubbing

Adjective

money-grubbing (comparative more money-grubbing, superlative most money-grubbing)

  1. (derogatory) Fiercely avaricious for money.
    • 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[.]1768, John Cleland, The Woman of Honor, volume 3, page 96

Forms of moneygrubbing

comparativemore moneygrubbing
superlativemost moneygrubbing

Questions about moneygrubbing

What is moneygrubbing the alternative form of?
Moneygrubbing is the alternative form of money-grubbing.

Words near moneygrubbing in the dictionary

  1. moneyer
  2. moneyers
  3. Moneygeddon
  4. moneygrubber
  5. moneygrubbers
  6. moneygrubbing
  7. moneyhatting
  8. moneyholder
  9. moneyholders
  10. moneyholic
  11. moneyholics

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