commercialistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercialistic
Adjective
  • The film is written to the anxious and, yes, materialistic beats of the here and now.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Harlan has an avaricious family, each member of which has something to gain from his death.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • What Netanyahu wants is not this peace deal or avaricious annexations, but to stay in power.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The mercenary group for years propped up militant groups and authoritarian regimes in the Sahel in exchange for mineral resources — including huge concessions in Sudan’s gold mining industry.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Reuters reported in April 2019 that Prince had been shopping a plan to topple the Maduro regime using mercenary soldiers.
    Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Building out that platform and benefiting as more teams are plugged into it has meant Leonsis and MSE have stayed acquisitive.
    Ian Thomas, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Retail e-commerce penetration had surged during the pandemic, which brought a rush of acquisitive capital into the space.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The evil-doing in question is simple enough, at least for a franchise that has always been built around the existence of a clandestine organization of magicians (The Eye) who love using their skills to take down bad guys and quite literally share the wealth with their eager audiences.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Ghana has been one of the first countries to make major Article 6 sales, and some other African nations are eager to follow, Ali Mohamed, Kenya’s special climate envoy, told Semafor.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • This ultra-lightweight (under 7 lbs) vacuum delivers Shark’s most powerful multi-surface suction for deep cleaning carpets and hard floors alike.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Note that the multi-surface file, scissors and saw join the blade on the outside of the closed Alpha body, accessible without opening the plier handles.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Japan’s Production Committee Model Emerges as Co-Production Barrier Separately, Japanese producers are very excited to and desirous of, coproducing with international partners, but language and culture still remain massive obstacles.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Proceeding With Task-Sharing Assume that mental health professionals desirous of doing task-sharing are fully aware of the various limitations and potential shortcomings.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • The father, Fyodor Karamazov, is a grasping, lecherous, deceitful, and shameless widower.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Engineers still struggle to replicate a grasping human hand, or the hand-eye coordination of a human brain.
    Natan Linder, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Commercialistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercialistic. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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