Adjective:

घूसख़ोर, ज़रख़ीद,

venal's Usage Examples:

Dryden, while compelled to honour him as an upright judge, overwhelmed his memory with scathing, if venal, satire; and Dryden's satire has been accepted as truth by later historians.

venal, less principled operator.

He won his cause; but in the eyes of all posterity he justified the reproaches of his contemporaries, who describe him as a cruel, venal, grasping seeker after power, eager to support a despotism for the sake of honours, offices and emoluments secured for himself by a bargain with the oppressors of his country.

The practice of pulling down the ancient monuments to be used as building material, which was connived at by venal officials, was strictly prohibited.

Naukratis in the Egyptian Delta was famous under the Ptolemies for its brilliant venal women.

Procopius complains that he and Tribonian were always repealing old laws and enacting new ones, and accuses them of venal motives for doing so.

As a matter of fact, no man was more free or outspoken in his criticism of the policy of his employers than this apparently venal writer.

For some time the history of the gaekwars was very much the same as that of most territorial houses in India: an occasional able minister, more rarely an able prince; but, on the other hand, a long dreary list of incompetent heads, venal advisers and taskmasters oppressive to the people.

At their worst, even with venal examiners (and additional fees were often offered as a bribe), Rashdall regards these examinations (at the end of the 13th century) as probably " less of a farce than the pass examinations of Oxford and Cambridge almost within the memory of persons now living."

Next to the Roman Uniats (whom they term Rassen or Venal) they most hate the Nestorian Syrians of Persia.

Synonyms:

purchasable, corrupt, bribable, corruptible, dishonest,

Antonyms:

honest, true, straight, sincere, incorrupt,