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adj. - Not serving merely for pay or sordid advantage

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  • From that Cooper Institute meeting Anna received almost one thousand dollars, an incredible amount for a simple speech to her unmercenary spirit, but one which was to be...
  • "I suppose the advertising business is altruistic and unmercenary?"
  • She was all impulse; a shifty piece of unmercenary stratagem occasionally directing it.
  • She dressed quietly; was absolutely unmercenary; her intelligence -- i.e., her intellectual calibre -- was not great.
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