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lucre
This term carries a heavy pejorative weight, specifically associating wealth with greed, corruption, or moral decay. It is rarely used to describe honest earnings or neutral financial assets, instead evoking the image of money acquired through illicit means or an obsessive pursuit of profit at the expense of ethics.
Because it is an uncountable noun, it cannot be pluralized or counted with numbers. To refer to a specific amount or instance of this kind of wealth, one must use partitive constructions such as a sum of lucre or an amount of lucre.
Meanings
Examples
He was more interested in filthy lucre than in the welfare of his employees.
The corrupt official accumulated vast amounts of lucre through bribes.
The detective suspected the witness had been bought with a bit of lucre.
She viewed the pursuit of lucre as a spiritual distraction.
The company was driven by a thirst for lucre at any cost.
He spent his final years hoarding his ill-gotten lucre in a hidden vault.