English Dictionary

venal

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈviːnəl/

形容詞

古語 行動関連

(archaic) For sale; available for purchase. / Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit. / Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.

日本語の意味

（古風な用法）販売可能な、売りに出すことができる状態の / （地位や特権などが）購入可能な、金銭で取引され得る / （人が）賄賂を受けやすい、買収に応じやすい

At dawn the merchant arranged his venal wares along the lane, inviting any passerby to buy.

夜明けに商人は通り沿いに売りに出された品物を並べ、通りがかりの人に買うよう勧めた。

意味（1）

(archaic) For sale; available for purchase.

意味（2）

Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.

Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.

意味（3）

Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.

意味（4）

(of behaviour etc.) Corrupt, mercenary.

Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, […] as those who have lately figured on the political stage.

more venal （ comparative ）

most venal （ superlative ）