money-ridden

comparative more money-ridden · superlative most money-ridden

1. Dominated or driven by money.

   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.

   1958, Anthony West, “George Orwell”, in Principles and Persuasions: The Literary Essays of Anthony West, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, page 150

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   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.

   1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Great Election”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, London: John Lane, page 219

   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.

   2008 August 20, “The Hands That Feed Them”, in New York Times