Venal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VENAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• open to bribery
• showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt
• easily bribed
• Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
• Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.
• capable of being corrupted

Words related to VENAL

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Words that contain VENAL

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How to use VENAL in a sentence

• The venal boroughs, which both Whig and Tory magnates controlled, were the chief seats of abuses and scandals.
• He seems to have been sent to instruct and guide legislators in a venal and corrupt age.
• This party had held power for seventy years, had forgotten the principles of the Revolution, and had become venal and selfish, dividing among its chiefs the spoils of office.
• In after times these appeals were settled on venal principles, but not for centuries.
• The most learned counsel could be employed only by the rich, and even judges were venal, so that the poor did not easily find adequate redress.
• Had he been venal and unscrupulous, he would have seized it with avidity.
• He was equally severe on corrupt governors and venal judges.
• There are only three hundred venal and bribed souls out of so many millions.
• If I had been venal, I should have sold myself to its designs.
• Eatanswill, according to Dickens, was a town alive with loathsome corruption, hypocritical in all its public utterances, and venal in all its votes.
• A corrupt and venal administration was filled with secret adherents of the king over the water.
• I had heard of references written to order by venal scribes, and I consulted the city directory.
• Still, the giggle, the plastered oily hair and the venal leering eyes came back to me again and again in spite of myself.
• Shelley lays down as a principle that commerce is the venal interchange of what human art or nature yields, and which should not be purchased by wealth, but demanded by want.
• As he introduced the trade of writing for bread, so he also is charged with venal flattery, than which nothing can be more ignoble and base.
• Now, if the story were proved, it must be admitted that it would reveal a baseness in Pope which would be worthy only of the lowest and most venal literary marauders.
• It was easily bought of a venal Legislature with the proceeds of a new scoop into the city treasury.
• But it was a case of Reverse English on Election Day, for the venal Opposition rode into power on a Tidal Wave.
• He may be venal, he may be traitorous, he may be a coward, he may be revengeful, he may be a drunkard.
• The generals were nearly as venal as the politicians, and Pichegru was successfully tampered with.
• Corrupt and venal orators are the assassins of the public liberties and of public morals.
• But a venal and profligate verdict in the matter has brought upon the republic the gravest injury.
• Venal government made the noblest conservative thinking seem treason to the highest interests of the country.
• Union Labor, ousted and discredited by venal representatives, was not officially in favor of the Taylor-Langdon slate.
• In an age less corrupt and venal than that under consideration, such a career could not have long continued without check.
• It was still more creditable to him, that in such venal and corrupt days he maintained his integrity perfectly unsullied.
• Her person being rendered venal, a soldier made his offers of gallantry.
• Dryden made haste to answer the call, and his venal muse wrote to please the town.
• Many Negroes were undoubtedly venal, but more were ignorant and deceived.

Similar words containing VEN without suffix al

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