I have seen people worn down by such venal landlords, but venal and greedy people do not always appear to be so.
Existing police resources are not wisely used, although not for any wicked or venal reason.
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.
We are in danger of seeing the start of a new venal practice which can only damage our parliamentary democracy.
Bearing in mind the fact that time moves on, to say that one was wrong does not mean that one was venal.
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.
There is nothing so venal that it will not be done.
If we commit ourselves to the search for sensible solutions, does this necessarily make us somehow corrupt or venal?
