Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Money or profits.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Gain in money or goods; profit: often, in a restricted sense, base or unworthy gain; money or wealth as the object of sordid greed; hence, greed.
- To gain.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- n. informal terms for money
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Latin lucrum ("profit"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin lucrum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“By many accounts at least $150 million in corporate/billionaire lucre is being laundered through Rove's American Crossroads.”
“The part of you that suspects the lure of filthy lucre is the the unChristian one, assuming the worst about people.”
“Federal investigators are expected to ask the court to freeze about $93 million in assets, arguing that the lucre is the result of her husband's multi-billion dollar fraud.”
“Try as they might introducing their own music-download services, for instance neither Warner nor its rivals have found a digital source for the kind of lucre once generated by selling CDs.”
“This old man, the head of the Romany folk, had the bulk of the fortune which had been his own father's and he had the logic of lucre which is the most convincing of all logic.”
“He was certainly not of ancient lineage, but since he had attained that position which enabled him to be received as an equal in the great world, and had by his skill accumulated a portion of that filthy lucre which is the platform whereon society moves and has its exclusive being, he had the advantage of talking to Donna Faustina, wherever he met her, in spite of her father's sixty-four quarterings.”
“The master mixologists of this new history deal perform an important role for the Right: with only the Tea Party, with no real Republican Party to speak of, with Karl Rove doling out his Crossroads campaign lucre, the need to negate history in 2010 is stronger than ever before.”
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“The foremost example in these parts of what is disgusting about undeserved wealth and corrupt politicians exploiting irreplacable natural resources to line their own pockets at the expense of natural habitats sacrificed for filthy lucre.”
“The Dawg did not contribute to the rape of the Chiapas and Tabasco woodlands for filthy lucre; an effort upon which you pride yourself.”
“Well, whatever but a few years ago I imported some books here from the U.S. and they charged me a fortune to import those sorry books and I say I do not care how those crooks allocate the disposition of their tax ripoff, it is still major money out of my pocket, so you guys decide which thief gets my filthy lucre and I will spend my time worrying about how to replace it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lucre’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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Awesome Names for Your Heavy Metal Band
onslaught, gamecock, chthonic, hoarfrost, kernicterus, keelhaul, simulacrum, clavicle, interregnum, catafalque, gravamen, blunderbuss and 47 more...
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Kalli's Words
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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My Favorite Words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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Slang words of Irish origin according...
Compare the etymologies of these words as given in the OED with the Gaelic backgrounders in this book, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch, 2007). Awai...
smack, snazzy, pussy, geek, dork, dude, smudge, snap, slugger, slum, scam, slew and 102 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lucre.

sionnach Ach du lieber! Ein Bernsteinwort. Jul 19, 2009
bilby " 1 Timothy 3:3
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He must not drink excessively or be a violent person, but he must be gentle. He must not be quarrelsome or love money.
King James Bible
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;"
- biblebrowser.com Nov 8, 2008
reesetee I didn't think we were allowed to. I also can't say colossal without gall, or vice versa. Mar 5, 2007
chained_bear Does anyone say this word without "filthy" in front of it? Mar 5, 2007