Synonyms for profiteering
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : prof-i-teer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌprɒf ɪˈtɪər |
Top 10 synonyms for profiteering Other synonyms for the word profiteering
- bent
- bestiality
- bleeding
- breach of trust
- bribable
- bribery
- bribing
- crime
- crookedness
- debauched
- demoralization
- depravity
- double-dealing
- exploitation
- exploiting
- extortion
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast and loose
- fiddling
- fixed
- flagitiousness
- foul
- fraud
- fraudulency
- gone to the dogs
- graft
- immorality
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- jobbery
- knavish
- malfeasance
- mercenary
- misrepresentation
- nepotism
- on the take
- open
- padded
- payoff
- payola
- perfidious
- perversion
- praetorian
- profiteering
- racket
- racket up
- reprobate
- shadiness
- shady deal
- shuffle
- skimming
- snide
- squeeze
- suborned
- tainted
- treacherous
- turpitude
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- unscrupulousness
- using
- venality
- vice
- villainy
- wickedness
- wide open
Définition of profiteering
Origin :- 1797, but dormant in English until it was revived in World War I, from profit + -eer. From 1912 as a noun. Related: Profiteering (1814).
- Or is it simply hysteria which produces what is to-day termed "the profiteer?" It is probable that the modern profiteer is the same person whom we formerly called "the grafter, the extortioner, the robber, the gouger." ["Legal Aid Review," April 1920]
- As in corrupt : adj dishonest
- As in villainousness : noun corruption
- As in corruption : noun dishonesty
- As in exploitation : noun taking advantage
- These decreases have come out of the elimination of speculation and profiteering.
- Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
- Such changes do not come under the category of profiteering.
- Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
- There are three kinds of speculation and profiteering in the food trades.
- Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg
- I should hope to tell you; he is a butcher who has been arrested three times for profiteering.
- Extract from : « Jokes For All Occasions » by Anonymous
- This business of profiteering by the natives is no new phase of life in the Congo.
- Extract from : « An African Adventure » by Isaac F. Marcosson
- This meant a run on provisions and profiteering by shopkeepers.
- Extract from : « Paris Vistas » by Helen Davenport Gibbons
- How can profiteering be discriminated from legitimate profit-taking?
- Extract from : « Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII » by Various
- Not guilty as the inheritor of profiteering in particular, but guilty simply as an inheritor.
- Extract from : « Mr. Prohack » by E. Arnold Bennett
- Profiteering since the beginning of the war has been more flagrant than ever.
- Extract from : « Secret Societies And Subversive Movements » by Nesta H. Webster
- This fact will absolve me, I think, of any tendency to profiteering.
- Extract from : « Valere Aude » by Louis Dechmann
Antonyms for profiteering
- clean
- cleanliness
- cleanness
- decency
- decent
- ethical
- good
- goodness
- helpful
- high
- honest
- honesty
- honor
- honorable
- justice
- kind
- kindness
- moral
- noble
- principled
- pure
- pureness
- purification
- purified
- purity
- respectable
- sound
- sterility
- trustworthy
- truthful
- truthfulness
- uncorrupt
- upright
- virtue
- wholesome
- wholesomeness
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