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?
