commercialistic

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Adjective
  • This sparks all kinds of adverse reaction, mainly from McCarthy’s snotty pals and girlfriends, a tribe so fiercely materialistic and shallow as to make current Less Than Zero-types seem well rounded by comparison.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The pursuit of happiness, both materialistic and spiritual, is a recurring theme in my feature films.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Played by a Colman Domingo who is done up to look the most wax figurine of them all in a shellacking of makeup, prosthetics, and colored contacts, Joe is always either giving an avaricious open-mouthed leer or a cold-eyed glare.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a quasi-heist theme to The Christophers, which revolves around an acclaimed artist (McKellen), who has long since stopped making new work, and his avaricious children (Gunning and Corden) who try to enlist Coel to complete some of their dad’s unfinished paintings.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The plot is based around a routine jury site visit that turns deadly when a mercenary kill team led by Hewitt (Adkins) storms the location in search of a secret ledger detailing citywide corruption.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • The recent series of events—none of which, on their face, are as dramatic as an armed uprising of mercenary fighters—has created a sense that the political system is at once tightly controlled and utterly rudderless.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • All this acquisitive activity has turned the majority of physicians into employees rather than independent operators.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Looking back on his 27 years with the bank, Gentry said the timing, loopholes, tax strategies and negotiations that gave the business its acquisitive edge were not because of dumb luck.
    Chase Jordan April 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Sometimes there’s an English language barrier, but everyone is patient and eager to make your stay memorable.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • Joelle D'Alencar, the owner of the business, is eager to help new customers feel comfortable.
    Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • Audiences Were Never in One Place The shift toward multi-surface creation isn’t just happening on the creator side.
    Stephanie Hind, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2026
  • Its capabilities include surveillance, intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, and special operations support, alongside traditional anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare roles.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • There are situations in estate planning where giving a settlor or beneficiary an element of control is permissible if not often desirous.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Dracula and his brides are not the only hungrily desirous characters on display.
    Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Apes, on the other hand, have much flatter, more grasping feet, indicating that they’re better suited for climbing than for repetitive ground contact.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • My hope is tenuous, grasping; scar tissue from 108 years of futility is never fully salved.
    Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Commercialistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercialistic. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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