"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested.
- Normal shame might result from seeing a dark secret - a not terribly honorable motive for helping a friend, for instance - slip out.
- For he still is convinced that the war was fought with good and honorable motives.
- Now, with more honorable motives, my task was to imitate a man of means in the service of undoing theft, and this task called for a particular sort of gentleman.
- Is revenge a motive less honorable than jealousy (Cassius) or the wish to right wrongs that have not yet been committed (Brutus)?
- "Having a desire to answer the Yrythny's request for help is, by itself, an honorable motive for what you're doing, but is it possible that there's a deeper reason?"
- The concept of honorable motives did not have much importance in Quark's worldview.
- And in part there was a less honorable motive, which may have begun as an idle thought but waxed with time-what might not be done on Terra with a few Wersgor weapons!
- Kortar arrives and is also stirred by Kahless's honorable motives.
- But what honorable motive explains the cheapening of Holocaust-related language that has become routine?
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