OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5859

venal

/ˈviːnəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
venal
For sale; available for purchase.
Because lips libertine and and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; […].
venal
Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
venal
Corrupt, mercenary.
Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to differen…
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