filthy lucre vs profits

filthy lucre and profits both are nouns.

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

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

filthy lucre: shameful profit
profits: 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, profit.

filthy lucre (noun)	profits (noun)
shameful profit	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
	something won (especially money)