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Meanings of venal in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dishonest"
Examples for "dishonest"
1
This is the definition of your dishonest, irresponsible and dangerous Faith: Gambling.
2
Is politeness itself dishonest and damaging when carried beyond a certain point?
3
The defense said the victims provided testimony that was unreliable and dishonest.
4
Necas said on Thursday he did not believe she did anything dishonest.
5
A majority of voters say Clinton is dishonest, according to multiple polls.
1
Therefore no corruptible body moves circularly, but altogether in a right line.
2
He denounced Condorcet, and opposed to perfectibility the corruptible nature of man.
3
Now they do it for a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
4
For some of them are born and corruptible, but others not born.
5
That which is not pure is corruptible, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.
1
Feeling hungry, I inquired if bananas were purchasable, but without immediate result.
2
RBS estimates the stock of those easily purchasable bonds at 244 billion euros.
3
Clearly people weren't shopping so much as scavenging for purchasable goods.
4
He did not move in a class where spare organs are easily purchasable.
5
I fear there's no decent ink purchasable in Amalfi; I mustn't forget that.
1
The Fallujans are less bribable than most Iraqis, but you never know.
2
The legislature elected by bribery is a bribable body.
3
Eventually Paris managed to find a bribable cast member.
4
Oh, you admit, then, that he is bribable?
5
She looked at him for a moment, and continued: He is bribable, but you must go to work carefully.
Usage of venal in English
1
But there was one whose esteem had no venal mixture in it.
2
The same venal court was paid by all classes to his family.
3
We can classify corrupt and venal behaviors according to their outcomes: a.
4
And who could not but see this in the most venal light?
5
With such, the venal commonness of affection first profanes, then destroys it.
6
Every corrupt transaction is between a venal politician and an avaricious businessman.
7
A venal bureaucrat is a known quantity and can be tackled effectively.
8
The alternative is persistent wrangling, which makes MPs look venal and greedy.
9
They're not really venal, that lot, just too big for their britches.
10
Its worst result was not poor scholars, but insincere and venal men.
11
There is nothing venal in that young lady's veins, I am sure.
12
If he fell, he was consigned to no venal or heedless guardians.
13
What therefore will the country think when it learns he was venal?
14
These were the venal creatures Oscar Wilde was punished for having corrupted!
15
Hence so many unhappy marriages, so many prostituted pens, and venal politicians!
16
Russia's bureaucrats - even when right - are abusive, venal, and obstructive.
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