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materialistic

 adjective
     
ma‧te‧ri‧a‧lis‧tic
concerned only with money and possessions rather than things of the mind such as art, religion, or moral beliefs - used in order to show disapproval:
He's so materialistic.
the materialistic values of American society
—materialistically adverb
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