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venal
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venal adjective avaricious, bribable, corrupt, dishonorable, extortionate, grasping, greedy, nummarius, purchasable, self-seeking, venalis
See also: bad, blameful, blameworthy, lawless, machiavellian, mercenary, offensive, penurious, unjust

VENAL. Something that is bought. The term is generally applied in a bad sense; as, a venal office is an office which has been purchased.
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Now, however, tempted as venally as everyone else by Bush's prevention dollars, many (though thankfully not all) have also taken on abstinence-only education and are disguising it as HIV prevention.
Condoms, yes! "abstinence", no by Berer, Marge / Reproductive Health Matters
The new wave of import architecture is a matter of culture and commerce, with US clients more ready to look to the wider world of architecture to find the best talent for building and the site, possibly because they think they are more likely to get the unexpected from overseas designers (the shock of the exotic) or, more venally, that somehow regulatory authorities will be more lenient with guys who just don't understand the local rules.
Great countries embrace the world by Finch, Paul / The Architectural Review
It is in the schools and from the mass media," wrote Goodman, "that the mass of our citizens in all classes learn that life is inevitably routine, depersonalized, venally graded.
Libertarian liberals: when the left was (sometimes) right by Skinner, David / Education Next
 
 
 
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