Adjective : a venal judge. ,venal acquittals. ,a venal administration; venal agreements. From Dictionary.com.
Some even argued Clarke was venally auditioning for a job in the Kerry administration. From Wordnik.com. [Malou Innocent: Many Scott McClellans] Reference
It has been hidden from the English because Conservatives are still sentimental about the old days and the Labour party, more venally, need the votes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-26] Reference
Attacking the scientist in terms of venally-corrupted professional ethics has become the automatic method of choice employed to ‘discredit’ a scientific view. From Wordnik.com. [Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit] Reference
Not for more wailing at how venally awful it all is, marveling at how the reactionaries did it, as if Churchill's British spent the autumn of 1940 shaking their heads and endlessly writing one another about how it happened Nazis were at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The War for the Future_ It's Up to Us to Stop the Dying and the Lying] Reference
Organization after organization, business after business, motivated citizen after motivated citizen are knocking on every door conceivable with ideas for funding that range from great through good to indifferent to bad all the way to simply venally corrupt. From Wordnik.com. [A. Siegel: Massively Efficient Path to Save the Economy] Reference
Avant-garde anti-realists probably err in assuming that realist novelists are just complacently or venally recycling convention; my experience is that many intelligent novelists are painfully aware of their bated means, their limitations and timidities and uncertainties, and look with writhing admiration at writers like Beckett or Saramago or Bernhard or David Foster Wallace, who seem to have discovered new fictional languages. From Wordnik.com. [Progress] Reference
Lift the sanctions if Zimbabwe's venally clever leader agrees to have a properly monitored election. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
They just as venally and perhaps unfairly tear her to shreds using unnamed McCain campaign workers as their sources. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
And if our representatives do give it to you, shouldn't we conclude that they are acting venally and against the public interest?. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Cave's prose-style is as bombastically backwoods and venally visionary, to use a couple fitting overindulgences, as his lyrics for The Bad Seeds. From Wordnik.com. [bookforum.com] Reference
This season, Hewes 'protégé Ellen (Rose Byrne), embittered over how venally Patty treated her in season one, is still working for her mentor, but is also in cahoots with the FBI to bring her down for her sundry unethical practices. From Wordnik.com. [Valley News valleynews.com Stories] Reference
The simple truth is that the "Goan culture" that is so venally peddled aboard the tourist boats that shamelessly and noisily ply the Mandovi off Panaji (how. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press] Reference
No one likes the venally selfish. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’] Reference
When faithless Senates venally betray. From Wordnik.com. [The Disgusted Patriot] Reference
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