Meaning of money-ridden | Babel Free

Definitions

Dominated or driven by money.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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