Mercenary is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MERCENARY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who works for reward only
• a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
• a person primarily motivated by personal gain
• One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
• a person hired to fight for another country than their own
• hired soldier
ADJECTIVE:
• hired for money; motivated by the hope of reward
• primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
• influenced by greed
• Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
• Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.
• marked by materialism
• serving for wages in a foreign army
• profit oriented
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that serves merely for wages; a soldier hired into foreign service

Words related to MERCENARY

merc8 mercenaries15 mercenarily18 mercenariness17 mercenarism17

Words that contain MERCENARY

unmercenary18

How to use MERCENARY in a sentence

• It was almost base in its coldness and mercenary calculation.
• Many of the mercenary auxiliaries accompanying them made them number four thousand armed men.
• As for Phoebidas himself, he and two or three with him fell sword in hand, whereupon his mercenary troops all took to their heels.
• There is nothing cruel or mercenary which you did not practice, in order to enrich yourself.
• From a mercenary point of view the time was not well chosen for the disposal of her property, values always diminishing in time of war.
• Fan hints that they were mercenary, but if they were they concealed the fact wonderfully well, and made me think it a great sacrifice on their part to give me Daisy.
• It is an aggressive patriotism which sometimes is quite uncouth in its manifestations, but it is real patriotism, disinterested and devoid of any mercenary or personal motives.
• If they did, their teachings must have been suppressed by the mercenary priests.
• It would be unjust to sneer at Hobart as a mercenary.
• If they give alms, or treat animals kindly, or repeat prayers, or do any other good deed, they do it entirely with this mercenary view of obtaining merit.
• They told us afterward they thought the day was so clear that there was no probability of danger, and they were afraid of seeming mercenary about it.
• If Poetry have of late sunk in its credit, that misfortune is owing to the degenerate and Mercenary Pens, of some who have set up for the great Masters of it.
• Mercenary motives were too predominant everywhere, in the Church as well as in the State.
• The easier way is to show the world that our union is not mercenary, by trying to love each other.
• In her foreign wars Carthage depended upon mercenary troops, which her great wealth enabled her to procure in abundance from Spain, Italy, and Greece, as well as from Libya.
• The mercenary troops, who had been transported from Sicily to Africa at the conclusion of the war, being unable to obtain their arrears of pay, rose in open mutiny.
• As a rule the girls seek the streets from mercenary motives.
• He was not of a mercenary spirit, but he had an immense desire for success, and he had more than once reflected that a moderate capital was an aid to achievement.
• But many of those you seek to aid will have gone on the road to folly through mercenary motives, and this will prove a vast obstacle.
• No mercenary hands poured the yolks of eggs over their dead faces and arrayed their corpses in their praying-shawls.
• He was never mercenary, but his pride was wounded that so little recognition of his astounding services was forthcoming.
• If they are ever so disinterested in their general conduct, they are sure to be a little mercenary for their children.
• This information may serve to contradict some scattered impressions made by our friendly critics, that my personal aim in life was mercenary and selfish.
• The whole design and spirit of the calling was mercenary.

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