Example sentences for: venal

How can you use “venal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His venal dictatorship made it possible for him to invest some $300 million abroad by 1959.

  • I portrayed Tyrrell as a venal checkbook journalist who was ready to pay the Arkansas troopers for their story.

  • In tight race after tight race, voters have rejected the venal and the wicked.

  • Reviewers especially like Matt Damon, who plays an idealist lawyer taking on a venal insurance company, and also praise co-stars Danny DeVito and Claire Danes.

  • But no one seems to care any more about influence peddling, a category of sleaze that is equally pervasive, arguably more venal, and much more easily cured.


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