mercenariness
- a word derived from mercenary.
Example Sentences
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That visit to the stately home, which makes Elizabeth wince about her brusque rejection of Darcy's proposal, was omitted from the 1940 film, to clear Greer Garson of any suspicion of mercenariness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2011
To send him any thing in return would be to reflect suspicion of mercenariness upon what I know he meant a freewill offering.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Joan, to whom money meant nothing so long as she could pay her bills promptly, was rather troubled by the growing mercenariness of her husband.
From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
Her self-confessed mercenariness was always brought out in a whimsical, half-jocular way that seemed to have nothing of worldly hardness in it.
From The Best Policy by Flower, Elliott
Mary is very thankful for your remembrance of her, and with the less suspicion of mercenariness, as the silk, the symbolum materiale of your friendship, has not yet appeared.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
