The partners made a venal pact that would allow each of them to receive more money than they should.    From LearnThat.org. 

I may blow chunks now just recalling the venal swine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lieberman: I Could Keynote The GOP Convention] Reference

"A baker is not to be called venal if he sells his loaves, he is venal if he sells himself; Dryden only sold his loaves.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

They see her as "venal", out for herself and plain greedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Big Stick and a Small Carrot] Reference

Arkady had never put the word 'venal' by his friend before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

I love the sound of the word "venal" and I believe that is actually descriptive of a portion of our Vice President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Horowitz: Hail Knight of the Woeful Countenance] Reference

I agree that the mere disagreement about the scope of the AUMF or Article II was in no respect as "venal" or as "corrupt" as the entire Watergate affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

One Democratic lawmaker has said that it has made Arizona a "laughingstock" but it's difficult to find an ounce of humor in this kind of venal legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Zirin: No One Is Illegal: Boycott the Arizona Diamondbacks] Reference

She also liked to mock her bosses as inept or venal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret War] Reference

It was simply a trick, a fraudulent, venal imposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

According to his opponents, Zuma is uneducated, corrupt and venal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transforming Jacob Zuma] Reference

Song is love's best gift to beauty; gold but tempts the venal soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference

A profligate and venal career has troubled thy soul with misgivings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

Still there was a large class of venal hirelings in the pay of the Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Talent, often the most venal of venal things, follows in the wake of corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Our wives are furious and vengeful; our lovers are venal and talking to the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berlusconi To Tiger: Time To Come To Italy] Reference

Yet of Delia, Nemesis and Neaera, we learn only that all were fair, faithless and venal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference

They have attempted to give a venal value to things which neither could have it nor ought to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

'The corruption of the venal politicians of the nation stinks aloud in the nostrils of all men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

Big business is unloved, but more and more, government is seen as clumsy, venal, and self-serving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment?] Reference

Quack doctors are indeed pompous, self-sufficient, affectedly solemn, venal and unfeeling with a vengeance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Our eyes are wounded by the crying spectacle of gaudy ornament, venal art and senseless and graceless luxury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

He captures the venal, high-stakes world of pro sports with deadly wit and an ex-journalist's sense of detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jets And The Sharks] Reference

He developed this unabashedly venal worldview after doing time for worrying too much about what people said about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Hustler] Reference

He came from the old Mexico -- oligarchic, bloody and venal -- and he never abandoned the establishment that created him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Relations] Reference

He was not the man to console himself with venal love; a gross remark made him blush; the corps de ballet inspired him with terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Your memorialists observe, and mention with pleasure, that this venal cruelty is at present confined to a few ports, and a few persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

Jonathan shall have become a minister, he doesn't want to bear down too hard on a "venal press" in his Fast Day and Thanksgiving sermons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference

It is the old story of history -- the corrupt and venal arraigning itself against truth and terming the latter 'visionary' and 'fanatical.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference