1. a person who is devoted to the pursuit of wealth or material gain
Usage: formal

Examples

• The novel portrayed the banker as a ruthless mammonist who valued profit above all else.
• Critics accused the corporation’s CEO of being a mammonist with no concern for workers.
• She rejected the mammonist lifestyle and chose to live simply.
• The preacher warned against becoming a mammonist in pursuit of earthly riches.
• His transformation from idealist to mammonist disappointed his former colleagues.
• The mammonist’s obsession with wealth ultimately cost him his family.