venal 音标拼音: [v'inəl]
a . 可收买的,贪污的,为金钱而做的
可收买的,贪污的,为金钱而做的
venal adj 1 :
capable of being corrupted ; "
corruptible judges ";
"
dishonest politicians "; "
a purchasable senator "; "
a venal police officer " [
synonym : {
corruptible }, {
bribable },
{
dishonest }, {
purchasable }, {
venal }]
Venal \
Ve "
nal \ (
v [=
e ]"
nal ),
a . [
L .
vena a vein .]
Of or pertaining to veins ;
venous ;
as ,
venal blood . [
R .]
[
1913 Webster ]
Venal \
Ve "
nal \,
a . [
L .
venalis ,
from venus sale ;
akin to Gr .
'
w ^
nos price ,
Skr .
vasna :
cf .
F .
v ['
e ]
nal .]
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 ;
as ,
venal services . "
Paid court to venal beauties ." --
Macaulay .
[
1913 Webster ]
The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate .
--
Burke .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Mercenary ;
hireling ;
vendible .
Usage : {
Venal }, {
Mercenary }.
One is mercenary who is either actually a hireling (
as ,
mercenary soldiers ,
a mercenary judge ,
etc .),
or is governed by a sordid love of gain ;
hence ,
we speak of mercenary motives ,
a mercenary marriage ,
etc .
Venal goes further ,
and supposes either an actual purchase ,
or a readiness to be purchased ,
which places a person or thing wholly in the power of the purchaser ;
as ,
a venal press .
Brissot played ingeniously on the latter word in his celebrated saying , "
My pen is venal that it may not be mercenary ,"
meaning that he wrote books ,
and sold them to the publishers ,
in order to avoid the necessity of being the hireling of any political party .
[
1913 Webster ]
Thus needy wits a vile revenue made ,
And verse became a mercenary trade . --
Dryden .
[
1913 Webster ]
This verse be thine ,
my friend ,
nor thou refuse This ,
from no venal or ungrateful muse . --
Pope .
[
1913 Webster ]
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "
venal ":
a hog for ,
acquisitive ,
all -
devouring ,
approachable ,
avaricious ,
avid ,
bent ,
bottomless ,
bribable ,
bribeable ,
buyable ,
corrupt ,
corruptible ,
coveting ,
covetous ,
crooked ,
devouring ,
dishonorable ,
esurient ,
fixable ,
flagitious ,
gluttonous ,
gobbling ,
grabby ,
grasping ,
greedy ,
hack ,
hireling ,
hoggish ,
ignoble ,
infamous ,
iniquitous ,
insatiable ,
insatiate ,
limitless ,
mercenary ,
miserly ,
money -
hungry ,
money -
mad ,
nefarious ,
omnivorous ,
on the pad ,
on the take ,
overgreedy ,
paid ,
piggish ,
purchasable ,
quenchless ,
rapacious ,
ravening ,
ravenous ,
slakeless ,
sordid ,
swinish ,
unappeasable ,
unappeased ,
unethical ,
unprincipled ,
unquenchable ,
unsated ,
unsatisfied ,
unscrupulous ,
unslakeable ,
unslaked ,
vicious ,
voracious
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