Jonathan Galassi

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

American Publisher

Lucre often implies greed or corruption, suggesting that the money was obtained unethically.

Negative Connotation

The word is sometimes used ironically or in literary contexts to criticize materialism.

Literary Use

'Filthy lucre' is a biblical phrase often used to express the moral taint of dishonest money.

Historical Phrase

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 It was the liberalization of international financial markets. And boy, did that make it easy for the money launderers. The last two decades have been the champagne era for dirty lucre. In the 1990s, we saw financial centers around the world