Definitions for pelfs

pelfs pelf

Spelling: [pelf]
IPA: /pɛlf/

Pelfs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in pelfs (eflps).

Definitions for pelfs

noun

  1. money or wealth, especially when regarded with contempt or acquired by reprehensible means.

Origin of pelfs

1300-50; Middle English Old French pelfre booty

Examples for pelfs

She cares for no "cause" but her own cause of ease and pelf.

He declared that these so-called developers came for pelf, not patriotism.

The ruling passion of the age: worship of self and worship of pelf.

The pelf and the jewels will they revive his father who had fallen by his hand?

He had sold their fathers for pelf, why not sell the sons also?

The plaudits of the world sought not, but scorned its praise and pelf.

This brought him pelf, but, alas for his greed, the pelf came slowly.

Total Depravity: The greatest idea for the acquisition of power and pelf ever devised.

The pelf and trinkets that she had upon her Were not demanded.D.

All the laurel and the glory of these seeds I sell for pelf.

Word Value for pelfs
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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