17 adjectives to describe mercenaries

Many of them were foreign mercenaries.

No one is surprised on finding that the land-forces of Carthage were composed largely of alien mercenaries.

I could not read it myself without deep emotion, and the moment it was published in Italian, thousands of people copied it from each other to carry it to their homes and weep over it for joy and gratitude in the bosom of their families, away from brutal mercenaries and greasy priests.

The Carthaginian mercenaries in Africa revolt; Hamilcar Barca crushes it out.

On the fifth township were various detachments of disbanded regular troops, and even a handful of disbanded German mercenaries.

Fierce foreign mercenaries, for whom the barons have no pay, pillage the farms and the monasteries.

With ever-increasing hardihood Nabis leaned on the support of vagabonds and itinerant mercenaries, to whom he assigned not only the houses and lands, but also the wives and children, of the citizens; and he assiduously maintained connections, and even entered into an association for the joint prosecution of piracy, with the great refuge of mercenaries and pirates, the island of Crete, where he possessed some townships.

If they are ever so disinterested in their general conduct, they are sure to be a little mercenary for their children.

We were now miserable mercenaries, serving for low pay and rough rations.

It is not five or six thousand mutinous mercenaries, or ten times the number, that will change the destiny of England in India.

The ravenous and barbarous mercenaries, incited by a cruel and enraged prince, were let loose against the estates, tenants, manors, houses, parks of the barons, and spread devastation over the face of the kingdom.

They hold off and say, 'Make your government as free as you can, but do not ask us to help you;' and before you know it you have no retainers but a gang of shameless mercenaries, who will desert you whenever the indignation of this people overbalances their indolence; and you will fall the victim of what you may call our mutinous patriotism.

On the 9th instant, Lord Dunmore with his slavish mercenaries and stolen negroes were driven from their post on Gwin Island in Virginia, and the piratical fleet from their station near it, with the loss of one ship, two tenders or armed vessels burnt by themselves, three armed vessels taken by our people, and Lord Dunmore wounded; on our side not a man lost.

It is Burgundy's shame, my lord, that these treacherous mercenaries should be allowed to murder strangers and to outrage Your Grace's loyal subjects in the name of Your Lordship's justice.

We have every now and then motions for disbanding Hessians and Hanoverians, alias mercenaries; but they come to nothing.

For my part, I think it a very wise precept by which we are directed to obviate evils in the beginning; and therefore, since, in my opinion, the influence of Hanover must be destructive to the royal family, and detrimental to those kingdoms, I shall endeavour to obviate it by voting against any provision for these useless mercenaries, and declaring that I shall more willingly grant the publick money to any troops than those of Hanover.

But here was a man who had never done anything but good in his life, and was at the bar of justice charged with crime merely because some cold-blooded mercenaries thought he was interfering with their business!

17 adjectives to describe  mercenaries