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without integrity and motivated by money

have to work around the self serving, venal politicians so common on the African continent

Organized crime and venal police officers in the country, make it a less predictable business climate.
"Don't accuse Mrs. Bread of venality," said Newman.
Henry James -- The American
A venal moving-van company had revealed her address.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
At their worst, politicians (like the rest of us) can be petty, venal, and self-centered.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
If another complained of their venality, we replied, "Disfranchise them or put them in jail."
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
To the great lady she had given a heart vile and venal; to the SOUBRETTE she had given the heart of a duchess.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
But pride, venal pride, got the better of you.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
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.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Yes, dear boy," he continued, "I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
What more is needed by the venal souls which are born in courts, or which are worthy to live there?
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
I know which lords are brave and which are craven, which are loyal and which are venal.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
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.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Granted the exceptions, he agreed that all Englishwomen are haughty and venal.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
The venal little trolls.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whilst the independent and the warm-hearted were struggling without hope to save the liberties of mankind.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
This peculiar felicity of situation has, in a great degree, contributed to preserve the liberty which that country to this day enjoys, in spite of the prevalent venality and corruption.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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