mercenariness

In manner, she is hard-driving, and the character's mercenariness is not tempered by humor.

For this is a musical that celebrates motivated mercenariness and acquisitiveness, not just the ruthlessly feminine wiles that no gentleman admits preferring.

That visit to the stately home, which makes Elizabeth wince about her brusque rejection of Darcy's proposal, was omitted from the 1940 film, to clear Greer Garson of any suspicion of mercenariness.

To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about 'human nature'(such as its mercenariness) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals - expressive, artistic, acquisitive or whatever.

I do not think he deceived her, indeed, nor do I suspect him of mercenariness in their union; but no doubt he played up to her requirements in the half ingenuous way that was and still is the quality of most wooing, and presented himself as a very brisk and orthodox young man.