venal
adjective
1 venal
Capable of being corrupted:
— A venal police officer.
synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, purchasable.
Roget 812:
priced
etc.
v.;
to the tune of,
ad valorem;
dutiable;
mercenary,
venal.
Roget 819:
parsimonious,
penurious,
stingy,
miserly,
mean,
shabby,
peddling,
scrubby,
penny wise,
near,
niggardly,
close;
fast handed,
close handed,
strait handed;
close fisted,
hard fisted,
tight fisted;
tight,
sparing;
chary;
grudging,
griping
etc.
v.;
illiberal,
ungenerous,
churlish,
hidebound,
sordid,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous,
usurious,
avaricious,
greedy,
extortionate,
rapacious.
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Roget 940:
dishonest,
dishonorable;
unconscientious,
unscrupulous;
fraudulent
etc.
545;
knavish;
disgraceful
etc.
(disreputable)
974;
wicked
etc.
945.
false-hearted,
disingenuous;
unfair,
one-sided;
double,
double-hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced;
timeserving†,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
Machiavelian,
dark,
slippery;
fishy;
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured.
infamous,
arrant,
foul,
base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard.
contemptible,
unrespectable,
abject,
mean,
shabby,
little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging;
beneath one.
low-minded,
low-thoughted†;
base-minded.
undignified,
indign†;
unbecoming,
unbeseeming†,
unbefitting;
derogatory,
degrading;
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
beneath one's dignity;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unknightly†,
unchivalric†,
unmanly,
unhandsome;
recreant,
inglorious.
corrupt,
venal;
debased,
mongrel.
faithless,
of bad faith,
false,
unfaithful,
disloyal;
untrustworthy;
trustless,
trothless†;
lost to shame,
dead to honor;
barratrous.
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Roget 943:
selfish;
self-seeking,
self-indulgent,
self-interested,
self-centered;
wrapped up in self,
wrapt up in self†,
centered in self;
egotistic,
egotistical;
egoistical†.
illiberal,
mean,
ungenerous,
narrow-minded;
mercenary,
venal;
covetous
etc.
819.
unspiritual,
earthly,
earthly-minded;
mundane;
worldly,
worldly-minded;
worldly-wise;
timeserving†.
interested;
alieni appetens sui profusus [Lat.].
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Polish: przekupny, sprzedajny, przedajny
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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