venal
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1. venal - Adjective
2. venal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
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We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
There is not upon the face of the earth today a government so utterly and shamelessly corrupt as that of the United States of America. There are others more cruel, more tyrannical, more devastating; there is none so utterly venal.
Let the divine reign of Electric Light finally commence, liberating Venice from its venal moonlight of furnished rooms.
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.