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