filthy rich

idiom

informal

: extremely rich

—used to imply that a person's wealth is excessive or offensive

I happen to know that the woman is filthy rich and can well afford to compensate you.

Examples of filthy rich in a Sentence

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Here’s what being filthy rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, and 2000 AD China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history. —Big Think, 24 June 2024

Vying for Norma’s crown is Evelyn Rollins (an unhinged, thrilling Allison Janney), who is just waiting for her filthy rich husband, Skeet (Bruce Dern), to die. —Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024

Around a cool $200 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a tally of the filthy rich. —Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024

The film’s tight Academy aspect ratio, for one thing, was an idea that arose only after meeting with Fennell, who wrote the over-the-top story of a strange, middle-class Oxford student, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), infiltrating the world of the filthy rich one sunny summer. —Will Tizard, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023