Mercenariness
11mercenary — mercenarily /merr seuh nair euh lee, merr seuh ner /, adv. mercenariness, n. /merr seuh ner ee/, adj., n., pl. mercenaries. adj. 1. working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal. 2. hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla… …
12mercenary — [ mə:sɪn(ə)ri] adjective primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics. noun (plural mercenaries) a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. Derivatives mercenariness noun Origin ME: from L. mercenarius hireling ,… …
13venality — n. Mercenariness …
14avarice — noun the job had become less about integrity and more about avarice Syn: greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, mercenariness; rare pleonexia; informal money grubbing, affluenza See note at greedy Ant:… …
15avarice — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fistedness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
16corruption — n 1. depravity, vice, turpitude, wickedness, evil, iniquity, sinfulness, sin, viciousness; demoralization, perversion, degeneracy; laxity, looseness, immorality, shamelessness, abandon, fleshpots; dissolution, profligacy, wantonness,… …
17covetousness — n 1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self seeking, egocentricity, self interest, self indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess …
18cupidity — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapa ciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fist edness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
19greed — n 1. avarice, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, closefistedness, tight fistedness; mercenariness, venality. 2. ravenousness,… …
20miserliness — n 1. stinginess, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, churlishness, nearness; meanness, selfishness, tightness, tight fistedness, closefist edness, cheapness, Sl. chintziness; graspingness, avidity, avarice, avariciousness, greed, cupidity,… …
