money-grubbing
Obsessed with wealth
Money-grubbing describes an excessive focus on acquiring money, especially through petty or undignified means.
The term is always disparaging, suggesting someone prioritizes profit over principles: a money-grubbing landlord who refuses to fix anything, money-grubbing corporations.
A money-grubber is the noun form.
Excessively desirous of wealth
- covetousEagerly wanting others' possessions
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
- rapaciousExcessively grasping or greedy
- graspingGreedy for wealth
insatiable · voracious · mercenary · venal · gold-digging · greedy · grabby · selfish
Excessively reluctant to spend
- stingyUnwilling to spend freely
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- parsimoniousExcessively unwilling to spend
hoarding · scrooge-like · cheapskate · niggardly · skinflint · pinchpenny · tight · ungenerous
Exploiting scarcity for gain
- usuryExtortionate money lending
- extortionObtaining through threats
- fleecingDefrauding for gain
- swindlingFraudulent taking of money
scamming · overcharging · milking · predatory · racketeering · bilking · shakedown · gouging
Supporting private profit systems
- consumeristFocused on acquiring goods
- status-seekingPursuing higher position
- wealth-obsessedFixated on accumulating riches
- plutocraticControlled by the rich
avaricious
Excessively desirous of wealth
- covetousEagerly wanting others' possessions
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
- rapaciousExcessively grasping or greedy
grasping · insatiable · voracious · mercenary · venal · gold-digging · greedy · grabby · selfish · self-serving
miserly
Excessively reluctant to spend
- stingyUnwilling to spend freely
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
parsimonious · hoarding · scrooge-like · cheapskate · niggardly · skinflint · pinchpenny · tight · ungenerous · mean
profiteering
Exploiting scarcity for gain
swindling · scamming · overcharging · milking · predatory · racketeering · bilking · shakedown · gouging · cheating
capitalistic
Supporting private profit systems
- consumeristFocused on acquiring goods
- status-seekingPursuing higher position
- wealth-obsessedFixated on accumulating riches
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
money-grubbinggenerous
Willing to give freely
generosity · philanthropic · charitable · magnanimous · openhanded
money-grubbingnoble
Titled or virtuous
high-minded · idealistic · unworldly · ascetic · principled