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Lucre meaning
Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Example sentences (10)
In the cause of PFCH, inspect adjustments rock-bottom the divinatory lucre to a pregnant departure.
My point is that avarice, another definition for lucre, is as old as humanity.
Our voices and our votes are meaningless compared to the irresistible filthy lucre thrown about by corporations, developers and the 1%.
Nor, likely, were the of Americans who already believe their federal political system is tainted by filthy lucre.
Once again, sugar workers are being shafted because their leaders are either cowardly or have been seduced by filthy lucre.
The high command, of course, is as well entrenched in corruption as the rank and file and it is well known that some of the officers obviously live on filthy lucre, over and above their means.
Surely, if accumulating lucre compelled me, I’d have collected riches instead of education and experiences that taught me not all knowledge is best put in service of power or money.
In 1996, Rotten, Jones, Cook and Matlock reunited for the Filthy Lucre Tour ; since 2002, they have staged further reunion shows and tours.
Politicians and bureaucrats would succumb to the lure of government lucre accumulated through taxation, tariff duties and public land sales.
You shall not, for favor, lucre or gain, appoint or write anything for the poor but such good and wholesome things as you shall think with your best advice will do the poor good, without any affection or respect to be had to the apothecary.