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adj. Open to bribery; mercenary: a venal police officer.

adj. Capable of betraying honor, duty, or scruples for a price; corruptible.

adj. Marked by corrupt dealings, especially bribery: a venal administration.

adj. Obtainable for a price.

adj. venous; pertaining to veins

adj. For sale; available for purchase.

adj. Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.

adj. Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.

adj. Corrupt, mercenary.

adj. Of or pertaining to veins; venous.

adj. Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling.

Ready to sell one's services or influence for money or other valuable consideration, and entirely from sordid motives; bought or to be bought basely or meanly for personal gain; mercenary; hireling: used of persons: as, a venal politician.

Characterized by or springing from venality; also, made a matter of sordid bargaining and selling: used of things.

Synonyms Venal, Mercenary, Hireling. These words represent a person or thing as ready to be dishonorably employed for pay. Each is strongest in one sense. Venal is strongest in expressing the idea of complete sale to a purchaser—character, honor, principle, and even individuality being surrendered for value received, the venal man doing whatever his purchaser directs, a venal press advocating whatever it is told to advocate. Mercenary is strongest in expressing rapacity, or greed for gain, and activity. Hireling is strongest in expressing servility and consequent contempt, hire having become an ignoble word for pay: as, a hireling soldiery; a hireling defamer. A venal man sells his political or other support; mercenary man sells his work, being chiefly anxious to get as much pay as possible; a hireling will do mean or base work as long as he is sure of his pay. Venal means a being ready to sell one's principles, whether he makes out to sell them or not; mercenary and hireling suggest more of actual employment.

Of or pertaining to the veins; venous: as, venal blood or circulation.

adj. capable of being corrupted

"It's hard to tell whom the sheik loathes more — Al Qaeda or Sunni politicians like Hashemi, who he describes as venal quislings."

corrupt   

venally   

venous    mercenary    vendible    hireling    salable    purchasable    mercernary   

adrenal    duodenal    penal    renal   

corrupt    profligate    bloodthirsty    deceitful    avaricious    perfidious    lewd    unprincipled    factious    licentious