Sentence example with the word 'venal'

venal

a hog for, bent, corruptible, esurient, grasping, infamous, miserly, on the take, rapacious, unappeasable, unsatisfied

Definition adj. capable of being corrupted

Last update: February 17, 2017


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He is a venal politician.   [Please select]

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The venal policeman accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.   [Please select]

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His zeal for the total and correct application of the Sharia and his impatience with unjust and venal scholars is thus understandable.   [Please select]

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It takes a long time to catch up with venal French politicians, not least because of the privacy laws.   [Please select]

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How corrupt and venal was a bench that made the law of the land a nullity when a great personage was the law-breaker.   [Please select]

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Oh, there has been iniquity upon iniquity, and men know not whom most to blame--the venal idle servants, or the master of all.   [Please select]

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Has every creation of industry a venal, absolute, unchangeable, and consequently legitimate and true value.   [Please select]

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Have I ever done, or have I any intention of ever doing anything to win the love of these venal courtiers.   [Please select]

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Yes, dear boy," he continued, "I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any womencountesses or cookswho were not venal.   [Please select]

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Dryden, while compelled to honour him as an upright judge, overwhelmed his memory with scathing, if venal, satire; and Dryden's satire has been accepted as truth by later historians.   [Please select]

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[895] “The tribune Manilius, a venal soul, and the debased instrument of the ambition of others.   [Please select]

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