How To Use Venal In A Sentence

Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
A short autobiography is prefixed to the 1827 edition of Juvenal.
At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
Among the other notable churches of Orvieto are San Giovenale, which contains remnants of ancient frescoes, and San Andrea, which has a dodecagon tower; in 1220 Pierre d'Artois was consecrated King of Jerusalem by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Dedicated to a sincere belief in the venality of man, refusing to let any sacred cow go ungored, it's like Curb Your Enthusiasm for a lower tax bracket. Funny, Silly Sunny Philly - Tuned In - TIME.com

It's not like we've a shortage of venality, corruption and lust (not to mention hypocrisy) in this country.
Carnes quas detulerant reseruauimus vsque ad diem festum: nihil enim inueniebamus venale pro auro et argento, nisi pro telis et alijs [Marginal note: Nota diligentissime.] pannis: et illos non habebamus. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
I thought that given a better part he could have fulfilled the promise he showed but not as the stereotyped gambler with a heart, which has so littered the American musical scene since Gaylord Ravenal applied for a job on a showboat.
Ambition for power and other venal motivations are built into the structure of democracy.
JUVENALtS Sldera te excipiant modo prlmos incipientcm 19 f Edere vagitus; & adhuc a matre rubentem. A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
a venal police officer
Detectives have a phrase they use to help determine the trail of guilt from crimes of venality: Follow the cash.
Those visionaries passed and were replaced by venal men who don't care for independence or sovereignty and who want to sell the country to the US.
In 1789 half of the cahiers of the nobility demanded the end to ennoblement through venal offices.
How can the parties expect voter loyalty if they consistently assume voters are just venal and self interested?
Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
Some of the arguments put forward by the venal and greedy MPs as having acted within the law have been ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
He regarded publishers, agents and reviewers as stupid and venal.
So I thought some of them were acting venally.
That said, of course there are many self serving, venal politicians.
They blame their current troubles mostly on the corruption, venality and incompetence of local officials.
They fight to be true to themselves and good to others, and perhaps out of hatred for the sheer contemptible venality of capital's favorites.
From this vantage point for the Democratic caucus to ostracize anyone connected to the Illinois Statehouse is the ultimate in venality and hubris. The Early Word: What’s Next in Illinois? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.” The Monastery
The emotional depth of the cast, whether it's Graham or one of his venal bosses, lends a dramatic weight to the story.
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
If (sorry, when) Pakistan falls, it will allow the West (and India) a freer hand in tackling extreme Islamists without the incumbrance of a useless and venal 'ally'. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It savages venal music industry poseurs and also takes a dig at the clash between ‘art’ and pop culture.
Venal, lazy, irascible, horny, prickly - he's always living by his wits in situations that require anything but.
In answer to a question from Hegius, Agricola goes on to distinguish the words mimus, histrio, persona, scurra, nebulo; with quotations from Juvenal and Gellius. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
Juvenal wrote that an incurable itch for scribbling cacoethes scribendi takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breast. Tracking Route 128….D.C. Churbuck Reports
The show tells of the fortunes, and misfortunes, of Magnolia, the daughter of the owner of the showboat and her gambler husband Gaylord Ravenal.
That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing.
It has use only for the venal, propagandistic rhymesters.
It is a movie that wants to show the venality, shallowness, bitterness, paranoia, mean-spiritedness and general desperation that most of us know lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood life.
The argument seemed so compellingly moral and just, the counter-argument so venally self-interested.
The episode throws into sharp relief one of the most widely voiced criticisms of the performing arts in Queensland - that for all the talk of the state capital coming of age, a sometimes venal, smalltown mentality persists behind the scenes.
It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.
Nations at peace still have rape, they still have murder, and they most certainly still have corruption and venality.
Voting against a bill for good reasons in a principled manner, based on one's party's kaupapa and policies, is not venal or corrupt.
It is very rare that a venal person carries out a malign plot with exquisite skill. Times, Sunday Times
They're venal and corrupt and must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
Most self-described curmudgeons would probably go along with that, though with the addendum that their resentments and stubborn notions are, to some degree, justified by a brutish, venal world.
Ever yours E.F. G. 'Sed genus humanum damnat caligo F.turi' -- a Lucretian line from Juvenal. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge. The Land of Midian
By the end the "poor little person" – as Diana Mitford called the duchess – far from being vindicated, is shown as stupid and venal, the moment of glamour in the 1930s just that, a chance whereby she caught the light of history. Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
They may have 2 seats in the European Parliament (a huge talking shop with no real power) but I'm counting the hours until OLAF start telling us how venal and shoite the incompetent misbegotten retromingent miscreants of the BNP really are. Army Rumour Service
Let it suffice thee, kind juvenal, that thou hast the The Monastery
Maybe we can all trade our juvenal and childishness for suffering in sconce. WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: April 2005 Archives
Fashionistas of course are already worshiping at the altar of “Marie Antoinette,” with its title bubblehead and hollow charms, while Forest Whitaker devotees are savoring the outré venality of Idi Amin in the rather too enthusiastically entertaining “Last King of Scotland.” Archive 2006-09-01
He was a rough man, but out of his venality and his bestial nature erupted this divine expression on the canvas.
He was a rough man, but out of his venality and his bestial nature erupted this divine expression on the canvas.
Because he viewed human nature as venal, grasping, and thoroughly self-serving, he suggested that ruthless cunning is appropriate to the conduct of government. Five People Born on May 3rd | myFiveBest
Cleiveland and that of Pope, as between the diverse schools known as the "Horatian" and the "Juvenalian". English Satires
Some of the arguments put forward by the venal and greedy MPs as having acted within the law have been ludicrous. Times, Sunday Times
Those battling to win seats in the election tomorrow are viewed as more venal, corrupt and conniving than any fantasy TV we watch. Times, Sunday Times
In that sense, economists as a group probably have even less credibility than politicians, as the assumption of venality is almost automatic for an economist, whereas it is suspected of pols but the latter sometimes get the benefit of doubt, specially when they are young and handsome. Difference in Deference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Viewed by the satirists Persius and Juvenal as the archetypal master of the genre, Lucilius had put a stamp on verse satire which it has retained until the 20th century.
Sorry Mark, but the only other choice was "venality" which I had no evidence for. Gnashing My Teeth
My conclusion, then, is that he's unconcerned about "venality" not because he likes the idea of Parliament as a microcosm of the human condition in all its flawed majesty, but simply because he thinks it doesn't matter; and indeed he confirms this a little further on, which I'll address when we get to it. British Blogs
There are many sins, little ones, that in our practice pass for venal and uncontrolled; but look on the filthy loathsome nature of all sin, and hate the least offence, for it hath a kind of infiniteness in it, and blotteth the soul, defileth the person. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
On my scale of morality, the selling of charlie to City high-flyers and celebrities is at worst venal, and possibly not immoral at all.
We had been able to impress the governments abroad with the value of an impartial and unpurchasable news service, as opposed to the venal type of journalism, which was too common on the European continent. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
One grieves for the good, decent and Honourable Members of Parliament - there are some - but far too many have been found out in venality. The Moving Finger Wrote
Granted, that essay is in the Juvenalian mode; the Horatian mode which includes everything from The Rape of the Lock to The Simpsons is less harsh. Terence Kealey’s Sexist “Lust” « Gender Across Borders
It made sense to him, he grasped the kind of venality in play here. Mirage
How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal? Love’s Labour ’s Lost
As boring meeting after boring meeting takes place, we are supposed to care about these venal, self-absorbed egomaniacs.
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
Those battling to win seats in the election tomorrow are viewed as more venal, corrupt and conniving than any fantasy TV we watch. Times, Sunday Times
Their actions show a moral courage that we were beginning to think was wholly absent from what is probably one of the most venal lawmaking bodies in history.
She is many things - venal, arrogant, authoritarian, ruthless - but she is no dummy.
There was no such system of rotten boroughs, no such domination of a landed aristocracy, throughout the South as has been imagined, and venality, which is the disgrace of current politics, was practically unknown. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
It is very rare that a venal person carries out a malign plot with exquisite skill. Times, Sunday Times
The National candidate is portrayed as a venal, cynical and arrogant.
In hindsight, we know that much of the prosperity was a bubble fueled by venal corporate criminals.
They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
Starring Eric Idle as a director, it portrays everyone in Hollywood as either effete New Agers or venal bullies.
Juvenal derided the idea of married eunuchs and yet almost all of these neutrals have wives with whom they practise the manifold plaisirs de la petite oie (masturbation, tribadism, irrumation, tete-beche, feuille-de-rose, etc.), till they induce the venereal orgasm. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Mielke and Stiller had the same interests, venality and power, which were competitive rather than complementary. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
I had originally given permission to a Greek fanzine to use the story -- a bit of juvenalia about a battle between the seelie and unseelie faerie courts as seen as a basketball game that is unpublished (and likely to remain so) in English -- last year for a special theme issue on sports to coincide with the Olympics. Breakfast in Bed
Though Pepys gives many similar honest and unblushing accounts of wholesome venality and decadence, much more is concerned with events of the day.
He has opposed the Court and the Prince alike, and the magistrates themselves regard him as a dangerous man, with those notions a lui about venality, and his power and individuality, and therefore is factious, and when the Court demands a Frondeur there will be no one except perhaps old Mole to cry out in his defence, and Stray Pearls
Flight-feather molt categories were symmetric, adventitious, and juvenal.
Dying or not, Brooklyn was our despoiled, ramshackle, often darkly mysterious, occasionally downright venal playland. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
Southern blot analysis showed that there was one copy of Pin agene in Ae . juvenalis.
Consol. ad Pammachium mundi Philosophus, gloriae animal, et popularis aurae et rumorum venale mancipium. Anatomy of Melancholy
Yes, I am a drooling, venal dishonest fool who is just lying because she's mean.
And, after what feels like a somewhat dutiful slog through Juvenal, Swift, and Pope, you would expect Denby at least to be aware of the limitations imposed by the shriveled range of cultural reference within which the contemporary media "ironist" must operate. Undefined
Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love?
Back then, the venality of the criminals was often matched by the corruption of the police.
“By Heaven, it cannot!” said the knight, “unless the juvenal hath slain himself and buried himself, in order to place me in the predicament of his murderer.” The Monastery
So it beggars belief the astonishing venal self-interest in the kind of banking lobby that whinges about a modest levy when they will not be paying any corporation tax to the coffers at all because of the enormous losses that were caused by their stupidity and greed will absolve them of paying tax," he said. Clegg: Bankers Should 'Fear' Liberal Democrats
Leaders have offered the people little but venal, corrupt governance for decades.
The political institution and party to which he has devoted a political career spanning half a century are utterly venal.
In the spirit of reflective self-improvement (and more, venally, self-promotion), I thought it would be worth giving myself a report card
Then, when it’s proven once again, we sit back in sanctimonious self-righteousness shocked, absolutely shocked, about humankind’s venality. The Early Word: Obama Meets the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In 1567, it was found necessary to prohibit quaestuary, or venal indulgences.
I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
But who could be so repellent as to take the role of Timothy West's council leader, a venal, oleaginous man who hushes up a disgusting conspiracy? TV review: Exile and The Secret Millionaire
Ian Trimmer is corrupt and thoroughly venal.
Brevenal inhibits Pacific ciguatoxin 1B-induced neurosecretion from bovine chromaffin cells Health News from Medical News Today
Over-detailed political memoirs were frowned upon as being both rather treacherous and unpleasingly venal. Times, Sunday Times
venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
A veritable Wild West show, the story had it all: miners, gamblers, outlaws, vigilantes, robber barons, and venal politicians.
I was never manned with an agate till now: but I will inset you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel, — the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
“It is even as the juvenal hath said,” added the masker who spoke first; “Our major devil — for this is but our minor one — is even now at Lucina, fer opem, within that very Tugurium.” Kenilworth
But politicians are expected to be venal and self-serving if given the chance.
Few men have more exquisitely tasted of glory and disgrace; nor could Juvenal (Satir. x.) produce a more striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune, and the vanity of human wishes.] 3 This last epithet of Procopius is too nobly translated by pirates; naval thieves is the proper word; strippers of garments, either for injury or insult, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It overlooks the mundane reality of everyday policing, which is often boring, messy, petty, trivial and venal.
The juvenal plumage is browner and much more uniform below, lacking the strong yellowish suffusion and streaked appearance below of juvenal-plumaged B. montis.
Once again they look greedy, venal and out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
Accusations of venality, incompetence and corruption dogged him throughout his career, and history has rarely been kind to him.
At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
There is no longer venality or heredity of public office.
They're venal and corrupt and must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
In an age of extraordinary venality such as our own, when the government is only a facilitator of commerce, artists come under a great deal of general contempt, as if every single soul must become bung fodder for greed.
In the public baths, where money was taken, each person paid a quadrans, about the value of our halfpenny, as Juvenal observes, Travels through France and Italy
The principal charm, however, belongs to the grotto with the river which it discharges -- the site of which may be described as a semicircular termination of a valley on a natural platform half way up a cliff -- the water tumbles down in short cascades for some distance; the grotto inside is untouched by chisel squarings or embellishment, just as Juvenal wished the grot of AEgeria to be. Byeways in Palestine
However, there is no imperative need for me to inform your superiors of your venality. TANK OF SERPENTS
Augustus are forgotten the terrible invective of Tacitus and the sarcasm of Juvenal recall the cruelties and the terrors of Tiberius. Stray Studies from England and Italy
Qui custodiet ipsa custodies," the Roman poet Juvenal asked 1900 years ago. Henry J. Stern: NJ Corruption Soup: 5 Rabbis, 3 Mayors, 36 Honorables
That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
Hellespont as along a royal road; and how his army drank a whole river dry -- all of which is gravely related by Herodotus as fact, is discredited by the Latin poet JUVENAL, who attributes these stories to the imaginations of "browsy poets. Mosaics of Grecian History
She therefore looked about among the Prince's connexions for some one who would accept coheirship with herself, and whose family would be strong enough in position to carry through probate on such terms, but at the same time would be grateful enough to her and venal enough to further her aim of being reinstated at Court. She Stands Accused
Children are quite capable, I think, of appreciating when playing along is to their advantage and, less venally, when playing along is something they think will please their parents.
Just because he's venal and rough-and-ready with the law doesn't mean he's evil. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
I challenge Burston to cite a single instance of my having touched on the subject of the "venality" of Israel's leaders (i.e. that they can be bought with money) in any of the hundreds of columns I have written over the past forty years, although it is a subject that Israeli columnists have had a field day with. Henry Siegman: A Response to Bradley Burston's Critique
Some politicos cling to venal isms that stunt their own thinking and the growth of the nation, and delay the maturing of its democracy.
The journalistic wing of the American intelligentsia in particular is largely a cesspool of venality and corruption.
From this perspective, could any commercial interest be otherwise than venal?
His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age. Jura Duty
It is bad enough that so many players have acquired a cynical and venal attitude but should spectators do likewise the game at top level is finished.
Two venal siblings wrestle with a force of enchantment far more powerful than anything they have ever imagined.
They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
Morphologically, babblers differ from thrushes and flycatchers by the lack of distinct juvenal plumage.
What damages teenagers is an adult world which caricatures them as vain, promiscuous, stupid and venal.
I enjoyed Georgi Markov's memoir exposing the venality and boorishness of Todor Zhivkov's regime (which was, along with his radio broadcasts, to cost Markov his life), and Atanas Slavov's novel With the Precision of Bats. Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review
Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
They've been tearing into each other in party meetings, bellowing at each other through their newspaper columns, accusing each other of vanity, iniquity, venality, even conviviality.
Once again they look greedy, venal and out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
I looked again and, now, the two smaller birds were on the back of yet another, medium sized juvenal roadrunner (fifth bird not previously seen). Mjh's blog — 2009 — December
One after another, scandal stories have tumbled onto front pages during the past month - tales of sordid excess, gross stupidity, evil venality and troubling secrecy in high places.
Story after story, not simply of abusive priests but of mendacious bishops, intransigent superiors of religious orders, and venal curial officials, seems to pour out daily. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sin Inside the Church
The well-known passage of Juvenal, vii. 86 ( 'cum fregit subsellia versu, esurit, intactam Paridi nisi vendit Agaven'), as has been pointed out, is only Juvenal's exaggerated way of saying that the _Thebais_ brought Statius no material gain. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about history of this industry and how stupidly and/or venally it has been managed.
Let's hope that this discreditable affair ends the anomalous featherbedded status of the arrogant, biased, venal, and wasteful BBC for once and for all. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan a venal London duchess is hoping to marry her daughter to a rich young man from Sydney, whose father cans food that even the servants in the ducal house refuse to eat.
The Oregonian is right on the case now -- painting Fireman Randy, whose bullying conduct has been nothing short of venal, as the "profile in courage" on the Paulson boondoggle. Fish and Fritz -- finally, somebody down there gets it (Jack Bog's Blog)

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