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filthy lucre

noun
/ˌfɪlθi ˈl(j)uːkə/UK/ˌfɪlθi ˈlukəɹ/US

Etymology

From filthy + lucre, which appears in the Tyndale Bible, and four times in the King James Version of the Bible, as a calque of Ancient Greek αἰσχρόν κέρδος (aiskhrón kérdos) and related terms such as αἰσχροκερδής (aiskhrokerdḗs, “[a person] given to filthy lucre”): see the quotations and Citations:filthy lucre.

  1. derived from *leh₂w-✻ — “gain, profit”
  2. derived from lucrum — “advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”
  3. derived from lucre
  4. inherited from lūcre
  5. compounded as filthy lucre — “filthy + lucre”

Definitions

  1. Money, especially if obtained dishonestly.

    • A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, […] Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous; […]
    • Both her auditors, brother and sister, assented to this, and declared on their own knowledge that no man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA