lucrative

• Genuine public-health interventions to address the social and lifestyle causes of disease are far less lucrative, and far less of a spectacle, than anything a lifestyle magazine editor or television commissioner would dare to touch. —  Bad Science
• The other payments and burdens of serfdom were not so lucrative, and as the ranks of the old villain class were depleted by the extinction of families, and fewer inhabitants were bound to attend the manor courts, they became less so. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
• It was reserved for the genius of Claude to combine the luxurious with the lucrative, and rise to a commercial ideal, in which cables are fastened to temple pillars, and lighthouses adorned with rows of beaupots. —  The Harbours of England
• The latter were obliged to cede the half of the lucrative, and for ship-building important, forest of Sila At length also the band that for ten years had sheltered themselves in Rhegium were duly chastised for the breach of their military oath, as well as for the murder of the citizens of Rhegium and of the garrison of Croton. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
• My compliments to him, and tell him he has been unanimously chosen to a most honourable and lucrative--ay, and a popular employment As this was an order, the mate did not scruple about obeying it. —  Homeward Bound or, the Chase

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