Sentence examples for obscene profits from inspiring English sources

Go to the Wikipedia and you find: "the word still retains the meanings of "inspiring disgust" and even "inauspicious; ill-omened", as in such uses as "obscene profits", "the obscenity of war", etc.

One ear!" — in order to "reap obscene profits" and "bring America to her knees".

Does he ever feel any guilt or reservation about making such obscene profits off struggling people?

With our own oil companies reaping obscene profits, why didn't our government think of that?

And always campaigning against obscene profits and obscene bonuses whilst others struggle to make ends meet.

Many people assumed that oil barons controlled prices, made "obscene" profits and made life difficult for ordinary citizens.

Those kinds of obscene profits are a direct result of corporations' decades-long assault on workers and their unions.

The days of stamping out albums by the million, stacking discs in record shops, greasing the palms of disc-jockeys and then ringing up obscene profits are over.

For any of this to happen, fossil-fuel companies, which have made obscene profits for decades, will have to start losing.

But many others, attracted by obscene profits associated with the subprime lending binge, did not act in a fair and ethical manner.

People who see all landlords as creatures of insatiable greed do not understand that for thousands of small-building owners obscene profits are not in the cards.