money-grubbing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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[.]

词形变化

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词源

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