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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    mercenary


    1. suspect he was something of a hired warrior, a mercenary of some


    2. the town’s self-appointed mercenary


    3. his frustration on those he pursued as a hired mercenary


    4. the mercenary deemed that it was sufficiently cooked


    5. ‘You’re still a mercenary, then?’ It was something


    6. In Troyes itself the fifth mercenary had been


    7. to return via the Sens road,’ said the mercenary, hat in


    8. ‘You were thorough?’ The mercenary was offended


    9. mercenary, dismissing him with a curt wave of his hand


    10. Compostella, now he was a guardian and a mercenary in

    11. After the second Persian war, accordingly, the armies of Athens seem to have been generally composed of mercenary troops, consisting, indeed, partly of citizens, but partly, too, of foreigners; and all of them equally hired and paid at the expense of the state


    12. precarious tenure, and were liable to be turned out upon every slight disobligation either of the sovereign or of his ministers, it would perhaps be impossible for them to maintain their authority with the people, who would then consider them as mercenary dependents upon the court, in the sincerity of whose instructions they could no longer have any confidence


    13. The conflict which was up to then very much like flying columns seen in the Second World War and later by mercenary Colonel Mike Hoare in the Kongo (DRC today, Zaire before that) now had the serious risk of becoming conventional


    14. This is also where the mercenary "Colonel Callan" got caught and later executed by the Angolan government with I think 6 other white men one of which was an American who took no part in the fighting at all


    15. In those days blacks non-South Africans did not count as losses so it made perfect sense to have a black "mercenary" unit operating inside Angola under white officers


    16. If you read the accounts by mercenary Colonel Mike Hoare and others I spoke with NIS acted extremely amateurish


    17. Consequently you found the poor terrorist selling counterfeit goods to get enough money to pay for his weapons and training for it became a mercenary business


    18. It is a wonderful scam and not quite the same as the mercenary syndrome but a variation on it in the sense that here you are put in contact with “Mr Important


    19. ) Ross Perot was one of the more extreme examples of this, even sponsoring a private mercenary mission


    20. In another incident, a drunken Blackwater mercenary killed no less than the bodyguard of Iraq's Vice President

    21. Several mercenary expeditions tried to take over Nicaragua to build a canal there, notably William Walker in the 1840s and 50s


    22. In every single case except mercenary invasions, these invasions, coups, or threats were ordered by US presidents


    23. Fillmore even supported a private mercenary army that tried to take Cuba away from Spain to become a US slave state


    24. Neither government wanted that due to high profile cases of US troop or mercenary (contractor) murders of civilians


    25. Conal recognised a mercenary when he saw one


    26. Ahmed Ismail was a former mercenary, military expert and author from Bolton


    27. A little mercenary work


    28. Mercenary then?” he asked with a smile


    29. In fact I have often found the exact opposite where women are concerned in that they can be fiercely independent, very straightforward and often quite mercenary


    30. which enables the UN to have a mercenary force

    31. These outlets have given the impression that the Crusades were unwarranted invasions by aggressive mercenary armies, whose only aim was the looting and pillage of the traditional lands of others


    32. The forces nearest us, however, were under the command of a mercenary from Escotia named Everaldo Stuart, Lord of Aubigny


    33. garrison, Andrea Doria, a mercenary from Colon’s Genova, was invited to dine with Gonzalo


    34. Probably living abroad longer has its consequences—makes the children more selfish and mercenary


    35. “I’m sorry that I called you a mercenary!” she said, moved


    36. “It is represented to the public there that the Sylvan and Dark Dragons are hired mercenary companies


    37. As he pondered his future as a mercenary, a small dot of a tree could be seen on the horizon of the great flat grassy plain that stretched before him


    38. ‘What have we here lads?’ The lead mercenary spat out his words full with contempt


    39. The mercenary leader quickly replied in a mocking tone


    40. Retrieving his thrown sword from the body on the ground, the black cloaked Titus was already accessing his next target and the screams of the injured man filled the air behind Titus as the mercenary realised his manhood had been skewered

    41. But their warlike reputation still befitted them as one of the best mercenary forces money could buy


    42. Calvin also found it interesting that an activist group turned terrorist had now turned mercenary


    43. The huge man smashed aside two warriors with one bash of his immense square shield, he preferred it to the smaller ones of his mercenary companions, as it provided complete protection and its corners provided an extra point as a weapon


    44. With his vision filled with the large shield bearing down on him, Barrad, used a series of side steps to keep the mercenary twisting awkwardly around after him, slowing his chase with alternating blows both high and low, whilst avoiding the circular swings of his hammer


    45. He leaves his family one night without a word and goes out into the world and becomes a mercenary soldier, initially recruited in Libya by Muammar al-Gaddafi


    46. “A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair, whereas true love is self-effacing and demands no consideration


    47. My mercenary associates, Liege Lord Taliesin and the Baroness Sharon, succeeded in closing the spatial breach that the Dire Queen used to infiltrate our villages


    48. Derrik- Mercenary, son of Haydar and Sarah


    49. Dominic - Mercenary, son of Haydar and Sarah


    50. Here here! What hast we here? A hair in there that I hadst not noticed before—a lonely black soldier mercenary from the nostril academy













































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    Synonyms for "mercenary"

    mercenary soldier of fortune mercantile moneymaking free-lance freelance materialistic worldly-minded warrior avaricious miserly stingy tight parsimonious penurious niggardly

    "mercenary" definitions

    a person hired to fight for another country than their own


    marked by materialism


    serving for wages in a foreign army


    profit oriented