money-ridden

English

Etymology

money +‎ ridden

Adjective

money-ridden (comparative more money-ridden, superlative most money-ridden)

1. Dominated or driven by money.
   • 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Great Election” in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, London: John Lane, p. 219,^[1]

     Missinaba County […] is a regular hive of politics, and not the miserable, crooked, money-ridden politics of the cities, but the straight, real old-fashioned thing that is an honour to the country side.

   • 1958, Anthony West, “George Orwell” in Principles and Persuasions: The Literary Essays of Anthony West, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, p. 150,^[2]

     Taken at face value, [the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying] describes a man’s fight to be a poet and a free spirit in a money-ridden society.

   • 2008, “The Hands That Feed Them,” New York Times, 20 August, 2008,^[3]

     The candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, have been presenting themselves as dedicated reformers of the money-ridden political process — just not for the weeks of freebie conventioneering.