Hack and Mercenary

Hack

Hack adjective - Used or heard so often as to be dull.

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

Nearby Words: hacked, hacking, hacker, hackery

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

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

Nearby Word: mercenarily

old	old hack	old mercenary
best	best hack	best mercenary
similar	similar hack	similar mercenary
typical	typical hack	typical mercenary
Other adjectives: ordinary, single, simple, infamous, cynical, last.

In The Secret Saturdays Doyle Blackwell is attempting to hack into the mercenary he is apprenticing under, Van Rook, who happens to be a money hungry cheapskate.

Source: The Password is Always "Swordfish"
Shows up in Schlock Mercenary when the titular carbosilicate amorph is infected with nanites that hack into his brain.

Source: Battle in the Center of the Mind
ReBoot, "The Great Brain Robbery": Megabyte miniaturizes a mercenary named Mouse and his flunkies Hack and Slash and sends them to probe secrets from Bob's brain.

Source: "Fantastic Voyage" Plot

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