Synonyms for hireling
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hahyuhr-ling |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhaɪər lɪŋ |
Définition of hireling
Origin :- "one who works for hire," Old English hyrling; see hire + -ling. As an adjective by 1580s.
- noun hack
- Your own country, and your country's cause, above every other; all else is the hireling's part.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- O remarkable shepherd of the flock, and assuredly no hireling!
- Extract from : « Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln » by Charles L. Marson
- Wouldn't I be a hireling too if—if I had anything to do with it?
- Extract from : « The Rose Garden Husband » by Margaret Widdemer
- Everything could not be trusted to one man, and that man a hireling.
- Extract from : « The Vicar of Bullhampton » by Anthony Trollope
- I was hireling to a rich farmer, and drove his plough—four oxen there were.
- Extract from : « Aucassin and Nicolette » by Anonymous
- Some hireling, some enemy of the shepherd, drove it far away from the fold.
- Extract from : « My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year » by John Henry Jowett
- The hireling went away and returned with a maid and the Child.
- Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry
- His brothers were the leaders of Rienzi's hireling army—that army were his creatures.
- Extract from : « Rienzi » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
- And it was only last night that he had seen Goritz's fellow assassin and hireling.
- Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
- Gotschalk, the hireling and not a pastor, and those who were with him were driven off.
- Extract from : « A Source Book for Mediaeval History » by Oliver J. Thatcher
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