money-ridden
English
Adjective
money-ridden (comparative more money-ridden, superlative most money-ridden)
- Dominated or driven by money.
- 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Great Election” in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, London: John Lane, p. 219,
- Missinaba County […] is a regular hive of politics, and not the miserable, crooked, money-ridden politics of the cities, but the straight, real old-fashioned thing that is an honour to the country side.
- 1958, Anthony West, “George Orwell” in Principles and Persuasions: The Literary Essays of Anthony West, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, p. 150,
- Taken at face value, [the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying] describes a man’s fight to be a poet and a free spirit in a money-ridden society.
- 2008, “The Hands That Feed Them,” New York Times, 20 August, 2008,
- The candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, have been presenting themselves as dedicated reformers of the money-ridden political process — just not for the weeks of freebie conventioneering.
- 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Great Election” in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, London: John Lane, p. 219,
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