moneygrubber
Obsessive wealth accumulator
A moneygrubber is someone obsessively focused on acquiring money, especially through petty or undignified means.
The term is always disparaging, suggesting greed that overrides other values: Don't be such a moneygrubber—it's just a few dollars.
The related adjective is moneygrubbing.
Stingy wealth hoarder
- hoarderOne who amasses excessively
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- penny-pincherExcessively frugal person
- tightwadStingy person, slang
cheapskate · skinflint · avaricious · covetous · acquisitive · grasping · rapacious · insatiable
One who schemes secretly
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- underhandedSecretly dishonest or unfair
- shrewdPractically clever, perceptive
guileful · duplicitous · opportunistic · self-serving · unscrupulous · devious · wily · sly
Exploiting scarcity for gain
- extortionObtaining through threats
- usuryExtortionate money lending
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
- underpayCompensate inadequately
overwork · slumlord · gouger · fleecing · swindler · rack-renting · scalper · opportunist
One pursuing wealthy partners
- gold-diggerOne pursuing wealthy partners
- mammonWealth as deity
- plutocratRuler through wealth
miser
Stingy wealth hoarder
- hoarderOne who amasses excessively
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- penny-pincherExcessively frugal person
tightwad · cheapskate · skinflint · avaricious · covetous · acquisitive · grasping · rapacious · insatiable · materialism
conniver
One who schemes secretly
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- underhandedSecretly dishonest or unfair
shrewd · guileful · duplicitous · opportunistic · self-serving · unscrupulous · devious · wily · sly · crafty
profiteering
Exploiting scarcity for gain
- extortionObtaining through threats
- usuryExtortionate money lending
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
underpay · overwork · slumlord · gouger · fleecing · swindler · rack-renting · scalper · opportunist · bloodsucker
fortune-hunter
One pursuing wealthy partners
- gold-diggerOne pursuing wealthy partners
- mammonWealth as deity
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- penny pincherscheapskate, miser, penny pincher, penny-pincher, scrooge
moneygrubberphilanthropist
Donor to charitable causes
benefactor · altruist · giver · donor · spendthrift
money, grubber, grub, grubby, miserly, moneyed, monetary, monetize, money-grubber