money-grubbers
Obsessive wealth seekers
Money-grubbers are people excessively focused on acquiring money, especially through stingy or undignified means.
The term is always disparaging, suggesting someone who prioritizes wealth over dignity, relationships, or ethics: Those money-grubbers would sell their own grandmother for a profit.
The singular money-grubber and verb money-grubbing share the same contemptuous tone.
Excessive desire for riches
- misersStingy wealth hoarders
- hoardersExcessive keepers of things
- penny-pinchersObsessively frugal individuals
- cheapskatesStingy people
skinflints · tightwads · Scrooges · gold-diggers · profiteers · acquisitiveness · materialism · covetousness
Capacity crowds or betrayers
- mercenariesSoldiers paid to fight
- gold-diggersPeople seeking wealthy partners
- social climbersThose seeking higher status
- materialistsPrioritizers of physical possessions
keeping up with the Joneses · nouveau riche · ostentatious · flashy · showy · consumerism · rat race · bread-heads
Those gaining from hardship
- slumlordsExploitative owners of rundown rentals
- loan sharksIllegal high-interest lenders
- price gougersSellers exploiting scarcity
- swindlersDeceivers who steal through trickery
con artists · extortionists · usurers · opportunists · scalpers · racketeers · fleecing · bilking
Senior corporate officers
- CEOsHighest corporate officers
- fat catsWealthy, influential people
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- plutocratsRulers through financial power
oligarchs · robber barons · Wall Street · bankers · venture capitalists · shareholders · billionaires · moguls
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- misersStingy wealth hoarders
- hoardersExcessive keepers of things
- penny-pinchersObsessively frugal individuals
cheapskates · skinflints · tightwads · Scrooges · gold-diggers · profiteers · acquisitiveness · materialism · covetousness · rapacity
sellouts
Capacity crowds or betrayers
- mercenariesSoldiers paid to fight
- gold-diggersPeople seeking wealthy partners
- social climbersThose seeking higher status
materialists · keeping up with the Joneses · nouveau riche · ostentatious · flashy · showy · consumerism · rat race · bread-heads · fortune hunters
profiteers
Those gaining from hardship
- slumlordsExploitative owners of rundown rentals
- loan sharksIllegal high-interest lenders
- price gougersSellers exploiting scarcity
swindlers · con artists · extortionists · usurers · opportunists · scalpers · racketeers · fleecing · bilking · cheating
executives
Senior corporate officers
plutocrats · oligarchs · robber barons · Wall Street · bankers · venture capitalists · shareholders · billionaires · moguls · magnates
money-grubbersphilanthropists
Generous supporters of good causes
benefactors · givers · altruists · big spenders · patrons
money-grubbersidealists
Pursuers of perfect visions
do-gooders · humanitarians · public servants · volunteers · ascetics
money-grubbersascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
monks · renunciants · minimalists · mendicants · holy men
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