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The recipient of the payoffs is the High Priestess, who is as venal as they come, and known to be partial to sapphires.† (source)
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The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal.† (source)
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They were just as venal as the Jewish police, although in a different way.† (source)
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I will go to any lengths, indulge in all venalities, to stop this planet from blowing itself up.† (source)
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But pride, venal pride, got the better of you.† (source)
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At their worst, politicians (like the rest of us) can be petty, venal, and self-centered.† (source)
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Not long afterward, in a series of letters to the Boston Gazette that he signed "Novangelus"— the New Englander—Adams argued that Americans had every right to determine their own destiny and charged the Foreign Ministry in London with corruption and venal intent.† (source)
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He not only affronted the town with insinuations of venality on the part of men in high places and slurs on the courage of the men in the field, but he took pleasure in tricking the dignified citizenry into embarrassing situations.† (source)venality = the condition of lacking integrity and being motivated by money
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We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven.† (source)venally = in a manner that shows a lack of integrity and money motivation
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She could understand the phoniness of Dr. Pritchett, she thought-it was a racket that gave him an undeserved income; she could even admit the possibility, by now, that Jim might be a phony in his own business; what she could not hold inside her mind was the concept of Jim as a phony in a racket from which he gained nothing, an unpaid phony, an unvenal phony; the phoniness of a cardsharp or a con man seemed innocently wholesome by comparison.† (source)unvenal = not subject to briberystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvenal means not and reverses the meaning of venal. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The venal little trolls.† (source)
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"Don't accuse Mrs. Bread of venality," said Newman.† (source)venality = the condition of lacking integrity and being motivated by money
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It was not enough that they were pursued by the Nazis: they endured unending fear of betrayal by hoodlum "Jewcatchers"—Jozers prey—and other venal Poles like his lady Amer ican Lit.† (source)
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The great oil companies and railroads sprang from the chicanery and the venality of the robber barons, but they were not now what they were then.† (source)
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A venal moving-van company had revealed her address.† (source)
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In any case, thanks to his invention and German venality many Jews in Warsaw were saved from dying of typhus, if only to die another death later.† (source)
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