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Mercenarily   Listen
adverb
Mercenarily  adv.  In a mercenary manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... is a realist, but a realist according to his own conception of realism; and he has some words of just censure for the French naturalists, whom he finds unnecessarily, and suspects of being sometimes even mercenarily, nasty. He sees the wide difference that passes between this naturalism and the realism of the English and Spanish; and he goes somewhat further than I should go in condemning it. "The French naturalism represents only ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



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