(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.
Sucre
Definition:
(n.) A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) We suggest that the sucrase structural gene lies between 31CD and 31EF on the left arm of chromosome 2 and that the two forms of abdominal sucrase derive from a common protein coded for by a single sucrase gene designated Sucr+.
(2) In France, three giant sugar companies received the largest payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (Tereos €178m, St Louis Sucre €144m, and Cristal Union €57m), while in Spain the top recipient of subsidies was sugar company Azucarera Ebro (€119m) and in Germany the world's largest sugar processor and trader Sudzucker was second largest recipient (€42.9m).
(3) Cruz 51%, Tarija 45%, Cochabamba 28%, Sucre 39%, La Paz 4.9%, Oruro 6% and Potosi 24%.
(4) The baseline level of mercury in the river sediments of the uncontaminated area (Manzanares River, Sucre State) was 0.06 micrograms g-1, while in the contaminated area in the Roscio District of Bolivar State the concentration varied from 0.12 to 129 micrograms g-1.
(5) Seropositivity was higher in those samples obtained in Sucre (2.5%) and Apure (1.7%) states both with foci of malaria transmission.
(6) Four collection sites were chosen: two in Sucre state (Santa Fe and Guayana) where A. aquasalis (considered to be A. emilianus by Gabaldón and Escalante) is presumed to be the major regional vector of Plasmodium vivax; and two in areas where no malaria transmission occurs (Caño Rico, Aragua state, and Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state).