filthy lucre vs profit

filthy lucre and profit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
filthy lucre	Yes	No	No	No
profit	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, profit is a hypernym of filthy lucre; that is, profit is a word with a broader meaning than filthy lucre:

filthy lucre: shameful profit
profit: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of filthy lucre include earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits.

filthy lucre (noun)	profit (noun)
shameful profit	the advantageous quality of being beneficial
	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

filthy lucre (verb)	profit (verb)
	make a profit; gain money or materially
	derive a benefit from