(n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(2) Er ... you've just put out a book documenting the Sex Pistols' 1996 reunion tour, Filthy Lucre .
(3) Glen Matlock's Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photo File is published by Foruli Codex, priced £20.
(4) Slingshot is not Facebook's first attempt at getting some of the Snapchat lucre.
(5) Of course, the insatiable nature of investors' and gamblers' lust for lucre means that some incredibly unsavoury wagers can be entered into.
(6) It is Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey , a youthful but accomplished hypocrite, who announces her antipathy to lucre.
(7) But there is a calling that is yet above high office, fame, lucre and security.
(8) I say, 'Because it's total crap'") or to Johnny Rotten's comments when the Sex Pistols reunited for their Filthy Lucre tour ("We still hate each other with a vengeance.
(9) But do the Obamas really need the effortless lucre?
(10) Granted, it's an uneasy detente: Obama's team made it clear that it is only accepting the filthy lucre of corporate America because their old donors are tapped out.
Lure
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.
(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
(3) But will it be enough to lure the AstraZeneca board to the negotiating table?
(4) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
(5) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(6) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(7) Experiment 2 showed that between 1 week and 6 months, both kinds of responses declined at a similar, gradual rate and that despite quite low levels of performance after 6 months, both kinds of responses still gave rise to accurate discrimination between target words and lures.
(8) Many of its best practitioners are lured into management and education, where direct patient contact may be minimal or non-existent.
(9) O'Donnell said higher pay for procurement specialists would help departments retain staff who were otherwise lured to better paid posts in the private sector.
(10) Days after The Guardian broke the news (despite whatever Sky sources might think) that Arsenal want to lure Jamie Vardy away, now Arsène Wenger apparently wants to take Riyad Mahrez too.
(11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
(12) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(13) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
(14) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(15) But he said others “are not necessarily deeply committed to and engaged with the Islamist ideology but are nonetheless, due to a range of reasons, including mental health issues, susceptible to being motivated and lured rapidly down a dangerous path by the terrorist narrative”.
(16) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
(17) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
(18) Police say nothing at this stage identified the three girls as being at risk of falling for the lure of Isis propaganda.
(19) Russians lured by low taxes keep about €20bn in bank deposits in Cyprus.
(20) The rheotactism which appears as soon as the eyes are pigmented has been used for the presentation of lures, thus allowing the study of the stimuli releasing the feeding activity and the breeding of 913 individuals up to the alevin stage.