mercenary
adjective
working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
unmercenary
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a word derived from
mercenary.
Example Sentences
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"Progress" Sirs: I read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he could have found a dignified, unmercenary spirit pervading those shrines conducted solely by the Roman Catholic, such as Gethsemane and the Church of the Dormition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Anthony likewise found that his jailing wives were unmercenary, at least in the sense that they would rather discomfort their husbands than get money from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the sunshine of the warm April afternoon, heightened it may be by her determined unmercenary pose, betrayed too the faintest hint of shabbiness in her dress.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"I suppose the advertising business is altruistic and unmercenary?"
From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
