fortune hunter
Marries for money
A fortune hunter is someone who pursues wealth through marriage rather than work.
The term is almost always disparaging, suggesting mercenary motives: She suspected he was a fortune hunter after her inheritance.
The phrase can extend to anyone aggressively pursuing money or valuable opportunities, but the marriage-for-money sense dominates.
- gold diggerOne pursuing wealthy partners
- adventurerOne pursuing exciting exploits
- deceiverOne who tricks others
- opportunistOne exploiting circumstances
- easy moneyProfit gained effortlessly
suitor · marriage of convenience · trickster · moneygrubber · schemer · manipulator · swindler · inheritance · matchmaking · cheat · materialism · beguiler · slicker · matrimony · social climber · social standing · landed gentry · ambition
- seekersseekers, seeker, searcher, gold seekers, quester
- regency romancecourtship, marriage plot, proposal, suitor, suitors
- opportunistsopportunist, exploiter, user, gold digger, social climber
- seek one's fortunegold rush, prospecting, new beginning, fresh start, opportunity
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- luckgood luck, bad luck, lucky, luckily, pure luck
fortune huntersugar daddy
Wealthy older romantic benefactor
sugar mama · philanthropist · benefactor · patron · altruist
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