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His largesses were abundant, and the uproar of vehement thanksgiving, was ever on the watch from the venal multitude.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERAnd there was abundant occasion: municipal affairs were corrupt, courts weak or venal, or both.
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEThe youth had imbibed the venal corruption everywhere prevalent.
GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. VOL. 3 OF 8VARIOUSIn racing and gambling they found their excitement; their consolation was the venal love of a ballet dancer.
VIE DE BOHMEORLO WILLIAMSHe seems to have been sent to instruct and guide legislators in a venal and corrupt age.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IXJOHN LORDBe corrupt, you have friends; stem the torrent of corruption, you open a thousand venal mouths against you.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEBesides—money is all powerful in this venal country—how could I pay, a poor devil like me, the necessary price?
THE PASSENGER FROM CALAISARTHUR GRIFFITHSThere was a negative satisfaction in the fact that they were empty which the hapless Malay was not venal enough to appreciate.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANFrom that time Sparta became venal, and grew extremely fond of subsidies from foreign powers.
REFLECTIONS ON THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ANCIENT REPUBLICKSEDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUBut he could meet those emergencies with the fortitude of a man already inured to the exactions of venal accomplices.
THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGERWORDS RELATED TO VENAL
- base
- bent
- bribable
- crooked
- debauched
- double-dealing
- exploiting
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast and loose
- fixed
- foul
- fraudulent
- gone to the dogs
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- knavish
- mercenary
- nefarious
- on the take
- open
- padded
- perfidious
- praetorian
- profiteering
- racket up
- reprobate
- rotten
- shady
- snide
- tainted
- treacherous
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- wide open
- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deceptive
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- malicious
- mean
- misleading
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.