fortune hunter

See also: fortune-hunter

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fortune hunter (plural fortune hunters)

  1. A person who eagerly seeks wealth without working to earn it, especially in an adventurous way or in an unsavory or unscrupulous way such as through marriage.
    • 1993, Amanda Scott, chapter 15, in The Fickle Fortune Hunter, Signet Books, page 217:
      “You are very charming, sir, so charming, in fact, that you made me forget for a time that you are a fortune hunter. You slipped up only once just now, but that was enough. You don’t want me or my help, only my money.”
    • 1998 Jan. 25, Matthew Sweet, "Cinema: Kate Winslet: the sinking man's crumpet" (film review of Titanic), The Independent (UK) (retrieved 6 June 2014):
      101-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) returns to the scene of waterlogged hubris, where fortune hunter Lovett (Bill Paxton) is diving for diamonds.
    • 2009 November 6, Seth Schiesel, “Video Game Review: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves”, in New York Times, retrieved 6 June 2014:
      [T]he swashbuckling modern-day fortune hunter Nathan Drake treks from Istanbul to Borneo to the highest peaks of the Himalayas in search of the lost treasures of the mystical Shambhala.

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