profiteer

IPA: prɑfʌtˈɪr

(derogatory) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.

Examples of "profiteer" in Sentences

The ugly word "profiteer" had not yet been coined.
The idea being that the profiteer is the worst citizen under the sun.
They reached the hands of many an opulent and abandoned 'profiteer' of Damascus,
Then, as always, what we now call the "profiteer" was holding up supplies for higher prices.
They commonly debase the word "profiteer" to mean some one who gets an exceptional profit, just as they use my own
How about the freedom to not have to worry that some greedy profiteer is going to plunder all of my retirement options?
Capital and Labor are at each other's throats; men cry "profiteer" at those whom good fortune and callous conscience have allowed to take advantage of the world crisis.
Attempts to capitalize the need of the world for private gain, or in common parlance, to "profiteer," were comparatively rare and were adequately punished by revocation of license or by forced sale of hoardings.
This does not mean that the mass of the employees upon daily papers understand what they are talking about when they use the word "profiteer," any more than they understand what they are talking about when they use the words