A woman who forms relationships with men purely to obtain money or gifts from them.
〈非正式〉用色相骗取钱财的女人
this place is packed with gold diggers
Example sentencesExamples
In your lifetime as a woman, there will be people queuing up at one time or another to call you nutty, a tart, a gold-digger, and worse; why give them a helping hand?
Not only did he have to bat away the gold-diggers and clingers, he also had to deal with the women that were merely with him to earn notoriety and a reputation in the eyes of world's press.
Or what about the wealthy senior who married a gorgeous gold-digger decades younger than him?
And men avoid gold-diggers by giving only gifts that have no intrinsic value.
She was a gold-digger at the simplest meaning of the word: She had no love for her husband, she married him simply upon his wealth.
‘And he loves telling women he is a millionaire so the only types he ever meets are gold-diggers,’ she said.
So there is one problem he did not face - wondering if his bride is a gold-digger.
The men complain about gold-diggers who are just trolling for millionaires.
In the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty she plays a gold-digger using pre-nuptial agreements to hopscotch her way to riches.
She may not be a gold-digger, but she's after attention and fame.
Their results show that offering an expensive present signals the man's serious intentions, but he must be wary of being exploited by gold-diggers who will dump him after receiving the gift.
He says his ad in the International Herald Tribune has been carefully designed to ward off fraudsters or gold-diggers.
From the moment I set eyes on her, I knew she was a gold-digger.
Catherine Zeta Jones plays a gold-digger who marries for money when she falls for a divorce lawyer in her latest movie Intolerable Cruelty.
So are women who fight rich husbands for half their wealth gold-diggers trading on someone else's genius, or trail-blazers for female equality?
‘Michael's brother Billy asked me once or twice if I was a gold-digger, but I told him that I have my own money,’ Anna laughs.
Being a gold-digger at heart, she soon dumps him for his rich daddy, Frank, who is lonely and vulnerable.
I thought both programmes were about egomaniacs, and I fail to see the heroism in a bunch of gold-diggers playing silly games on a sunny island.
She's not a gold-digger, if that's what you mean!
Well actually put it like this, Mirella was a gold-digger and I hated her.
Derivatives
gold-digging
adjective
informal
He plays a Los Angeles divorce lawyer who falls for the serial gold-digging ex-wife of one of his clients.
Example sentencesExamples
But Miles is bored; he wants a challenge, and this is where Mrs Marylin Rexroth comes in, the fabulously beautiful, gold-digging serial spouse who makes a career out of snagging rich men and then parting them from their cash.
The idea that pre-nups are only relevant for celebrities is fading fast, as is the image of them being protection for rich husbands against gold-digging wives.
He had just experienced an acrimonious divorce and, as they say, had been taken to the cleaners, and she is 25 years his junior and had no wish to be viewed as a gold-digging young wife.
They went into overdrive, portraying her as a gold-digging divorcee.