Base and Mercenary

Base

Base adjective - Not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency.

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Mercenary and base are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mercenary" instead an adjective "Base".

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Mercenary adjective - Having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions.

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Base and mercenary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Base" instead an adjective "Mercenary".

Nearby Word: mercenarily

human	human base	human mercenary
old	old base	old mercenary
female	female base	female mercenary
similar	similar base	similar mercenary
Other adjectives: alien, friendly, single, evil, private, former, last, local.

Averted in Sonny Gets Mad Scienced, where the titular main character a minion asks where his Mad Scientist captor funds his base and the mercenary employees.

Source: Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
While you're out on patrol after taking a big bite out of the enemy war machine, House Steiner betrays your mercenary outfit and launches a surprise attack on the base.

Source: All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Interestingly, Athena watches in the distance as the base explodes; this implies she planned to kill the mercenary with the one thing they could not defeat: their own greed.

Source: Death by Materialism

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