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Example sentences for: venal

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Because Diana allegedly was hounded to her death by photographers, displaying or even looking at pictures of this kind was interpreted by commentators as venal: an assault on Diana's memory, if not an endorsement of the crime.
I portrayed Tyrrell as a venal checkbook journalist who was ready to pay the Arkansas troopers for their story.
For years it has been an American article of faith--as cherished as our belief in free enterprise--that politicians are corrupt, venal, and incompetent: This was established by Watergate, left unshaken by Jimmy Carter, and reinforced by Iran-Contra.
His venal dictatorship made it possible for him to invest some $300 million abroad by 1959.
His tale is said to transcend the simplistic views of the mogul as either Horatio Alger success story or venal monopolist.