All 12 Uses

materialistic
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Unlike other materialists I had met and with whom I had something in common to start on, I had nothing in common with him.†
Chpt 6 *
Then you are an individualist, a materialist, and, logically, a hedonist.†
Chpt 8
The very simplicity of his reasoning was its strength, and his materialism was far more compelling than the subtly complex materialism of Charley Furuseth.†
Chpt 8
The very simplicity of his reasoning was its strength, and his materialism was far more compelling than the subtly complex materialism of Charley Furuseth.†
Chpt 8
His brutal materialism will not permit it.†
Chpt 10
I threw up my hands with helpless disapproval of his inveterate materialism and went about making the bed.†
Chpt 10
He, at least, after the customary agonizing of youth, found content and made of his materialism a joyous thing.†
Chpt 11
And in his action I found complete refutation of all Wolf Larsen's materialism.†
Chpt 12
"You speak in purely materialistic terms," she objected.†
Chpt 22

materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
I remembered Charley Furuseth, and knew this man's sadness as the penalty which the materialist ever pays for his materialism.†
Chpt 24
I remembered Charley Furuseth, and knew this man's sadness as the penalty which the materialist ever pays for his materialism.†
Chpt 24
As usual, his was the sheer materialistic side, and Maud's was the idealistic.†
Chpt 26

materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions

Definitions:

(1) (materialistic)
overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, in philosophy, materialistic can refer to the belief that everything, including our thoughts, are caused by physical effects over which we have no control.