Mercenary
adjective
Motivated primarily by money or gain
“His mercenary attitude toward scholarship shocked those who still valued knowledge for its own sake.”
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What does mercenary mean?
Commonly confused with
- NotPurely idealistic
- NotCarefully generous
- NotLoudly altruistic
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