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mercenary

adjective as in greedy for money

noun as in person who fights, kills for money

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Example Sentences

As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists.

“I did not have enough money to bribe the judge, so I decided to become a mercenary,” Mozhayev told a local reporter.

The scene ends with a Street Fighter-like battle between Captain America and a mercenary.

By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.

A dreamy, blue-eyed rebel is approached by a mercenary wearing a scary mask.

Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

But this pious reverence gave place to a more mercenary spirit, and the trade in relics became a traffic of infamy and disgrace.

It is perhaps something of a surprise to find him a mercenary in seventeenth-century Holland; but the old touch is there.

The first were large bands of discharged mercenary soldiers who pillaged the country.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mercenary, such as: acquisitive, selfish, unscrupulous, grasping, avaricious, and bribable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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