The idea being that the profiteer is the worst citizen under the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
How about the freedom to not have to worry that some greedy profiteer is going to plunder all of my retirement options?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » To ‘cut’ the ‘entitlement mentality,’ Rep. Kingston touts privatizing Social Security and Medicare.] Reference
They reached the hands of many an opulent and abandoned 'profiteer' of Damascus. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Chinatown] Reference
Then, as always, what we now call the "profiteer" was holding up supplies for higher prices. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence] Reference
"profiteer" and his ilk are discountenanced by far-seeing people. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
J. RAMSEY: I think at this point he's a profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? - May 31, 2000] Reference
War wages inclined every man to become a profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
SCHARF: Yes, I mean, ultimately, I'm not a war profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2006] Reference
COLLINS: Lost it the second time to a Halloween profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007] Reference
The term "speculator" is used interchangeably with profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [High-Frequency Traders Get A New Name] Reference
Did you guys know: that Romney's team has a war profiteer on it?. From Wordnik.com. [Top Iowa Story: Rudy Attacks Bill Clinton ��� Plus Russia And China] Reference
BUSBY: Yes, there's people out there who will profiteer from this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2003] Reference
After all, not one single war profiteer got rich on Jimmy's watch!. From Wordnik.com. [New GOP Attack On Obama: His Middle Name is "Hussein!"] Reference
MAY: That's what we've got to do and not again politically profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2002] Reference
CALLEBS: But he says those who label him a profiteer have it all wrong. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2005] Reference
(COM.ERCIAL BREAK) M. O'BRIEN: Is he a financial savior or a profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006] Reference
BROWN: And some question about whether he was a profiteer and the like. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003] Reference
What do you get if you cross an influence-peddler with a war profiteer?. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kleiman: Is McCain Surrounded by Nothing but Crooks?] Reference
J. RAMSEY: I think his motive -- I think at this point he's a profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006] Reference
Dream of preachers and priests who will prophesy and not just profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [1984 Democratic National Convention Address ("The Rainbow Coalition")] Reference
They wanted political power, personal power, war profiteer wealth, and glory. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: American Idealism, Buckley-Style] Reference
Allowing the wealthy to profiteer a little longer while the rest of us suffer???. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
Feinstein is a war profiteer and she wants a pro-torture guy at the top of the chain. From Wordnik.com. [Feinstein Explains Her Reticence* About Panetta Nomination] Reference
A sad commentary on how much the media can profiteer from our presidential elections. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
No doubt Louis XI would rather have been the only profiteer by the death of his rival. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
The wife of the profiteer discoursed largely on the luxuries of the new country estate. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
It boils down to a war profiteer working to prolong the war in order to make more money. From Wordnik.com. [Top McCain Bundler Allegedly Bagged Lucrative Pentagon Iraq Contract Through Jordanian Connection] Reference
According to the Center for Public Integrity, L-3 is the 6th largest Iraq war profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Cray: War Profiteers: The Bush Baghdad Bubble] Reference
Mackenzie was no Methodist; and he never was a profiteer from any emergency of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
So, they pulled up their bootstraps and did what any image conscious war profiteer would do. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Filipowicz: Blackwater's First Television Ad For "Xe"] Reference
Ministry, though it is said that one food profiteer has offered to buy the place as a memento. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
Hmm ... since 9/11 started Bush's "War on Terror," can we classify Guiliani as a war-profiteer?. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Campaign: "Giuliani Is Determined To Exploit Memory Of 9/11"] Reference
The profiteer rolled out a hugely successful chain of schools, benefitting hundreds of children. From Wordnik.com. [Profiting from profit-making] Reference
Feinstein is one of my senators, and a war profiteer, so I have no prob with pics that lampoon her. From Wordnik.com. [Dianne Feinstein: I'm Sticking By Hillary] Reference
They hate anyone who wants a life unencumbered by the psychological need to dominate and profiteer. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: The War on Hope] Reference
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