Venal in a sentence as an adjective

To find out he's a mixture of stupid and venal.

Yes, TurboTax is being rather transparently venal, but that doesn't mean they're wrong.

If I were going to ascribe fairly venal motives to someone, I'd want to have something to back my claim up.

Sure, Samsung comes across as an utterly immoral and venal company in this piece.

It's not because Romney is especially corrupt or venal or cynical.

Doesn't mean American companies haven't been guilty of equally venal - at times far worse - practices.

Not steering by the venal chart That tricked the mass for private gain, We rise to play a greater part. Reshaping narrow law and art Whose symbols are the millions slain, From bitter searching of the heart We rise to play a greater part.

And without one of those spite-filled, frustrated, venal, political distributions, Debian, they could never have created Ubuntu.

The million dollar industry lobbyists thought the most effective appeal would be a scare campaign in newspapers and a venal doctor talking about imaginary suffering babies.

Crony capitalism is not a manifestation of venal corruptionit is a symptom of systematic corruption.

From personal experience I can say many, and probably most ordinary Chinese are perfectly well aware of just how appaling, venal and corrupt their government and political system is.

Now it's Microsoft and all its venal little helpers and proxies attacking Google and Android....No matter what tricks Microsoft may pull going forward, the world knows now that when there was free choice in the marketplace, people chose Android, which runs on Linux, over Microsoft's phone.

However, this valerous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to venquish these venal and virulent vermin venguarding vice and vouchsafing the violent, vicious and foracious violation of volition!

However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!

French governmental organizations are typically less dysfunctional than American onesSorry, the research I've seen has shown the American government to be marginally more effective [1] and marginally less venal [2] at a much lower relative cost [3] than the French government.

Venal definitions

adjective

capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

See also: corruptible bribable dishonest purchasable