Sentence example with the word 'profiteer'

profiteer

blackmailer, bloodsucker, exploiter, fleece, hold up, overcharge, predator, screw, skin, sting, vampire

Definition n. someone who makes excessive profit

Last update: October 24, 2015


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He was a typical man of the new Equestrian type, the social equivalent of a modern munition profiteer.   [Please select]

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They reached the hands of many an opulent and abandoned 'profiteer' of Damascus, Stambul--where you will.   [Please select]

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Neither did Hindenburg, nor any German war lord, nor any profiteer.   [Please select]

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Then, as always, what we now call the "profiteer" was holding up supplies for higher prices.   [Please select]

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The effect on foreign trade of price-regulation and profiteer-hunting as cures for inflation is even worse.   [Please select]

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"He wasn't a profiteer in khaki; he wasn't even in khaki."   [Please select]

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Our schools teach the morality of feudalism corrupted by commercialism, and hold up the military conqueror, the robber baron, and the profiteer, as models of the illustrious and successful.   [Please select]

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Finally, during the Crusades, the Italian cities had become the point of embarkation for the Crusaders and had profiteered to an almost unbelievable extent.   [Please select]

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