Примери за venal

• Even infidelity of the most venal kind does not justify such vengeance.

• Ezra can be mistaken- more thoroughly mistaken than most people- but he has never been venal.

• Abolition of venal office meant that the ancien régime legal and financial office-holders were the first affected by the re-organization of the administrative framework.

• At a private or moral level, they admitted that corruption, as venal peculation, did afflict society.

• She is limited, vain, unintelligent, venal, narcissistic, manipulative, lacking in spirituality, and exceptionally attractive physically.

• As a whole, however, due to the simony, the magistrates were venal and incapable of representing the interest of the class as a whole beyond their own narrow interests.

• To repay these loans, tax revenues were alienated and venal offices were multiplied, not least in the military administration itself where they endlessly complicated the chain of command.

• If we commit ourselves to the search for sensible solutions, does this necessarily make us somehow corrupt or venal?

• There is nothing so venal that it will not be done.

• We can see the situation developing as venal, greedy fishing fleets hoover up the sea, put pressure on the stocks and begin to destroy them.

• Bearing in mind the fact that time moves on, to say that one was wrong does not mean that one was venal.

• We are in danger of seeing the start of a new venal practice which can only damage our parliamentary democracy.

• As courts of law, the parlements had been notoriously venal ; as registrars of royal law they had been the most vociferous critics of the crown.

• Existing police resources are not wisely used, although not for any wicked or venal reason.

• I have seen people worn down by such venal landlords, but venal and greedy people do not always appear to be so.