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Meanings of lucre in English
Income following the deduction of all expenses, taxes, and the like.
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Usage of lucre in English
1
Jory, having again expressed some low ideas about lucre, aroused general indignation.
2
The desire of this family to obtain filthy lucre was too great.
3
How many of your sex have sold their honor for paltry lucre.
4
Filthy lucre informed much of the debate on Irish television this week.
5
The issue of filthy lucre is about to rear its ugly head.
6
True to form, the rich put their lucre to work politically.
7
The one all-powerful evil passion of mankind-greedof gold; lust of filthy lucre.
8
For to accuse Cato of filthy lucre is like upbraiding Hercules with cowardice.
9
He's paid pretty dearly for his foolishness in bartering love for filthy lucre.
10
How was it that an Indian and turtles shared possession of such lucre?
11
He said he wouldn't sleep well until he has returned the filthy lucre.
12
The triumph of ethereal love over the base temptation of lucre!
13
We've all of us, more or less, got the filthy lucre.
14
I will both shrive and absolve you in return for the filthy lucre!
15
You are all after the filthy lucre, wantin' to live on other folks.'
16
But not every open-sourcer has proven so averse to filthy lucre.
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