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Venal :: Venal (a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services..

Hessian :: Hessian (n.) A mercenary or venal person.

Trading :: Trading (a.) Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician..

Ravenala :: Ravenala (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.

Mercenariness :: Mercenariness (n.) The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.

Satire :: Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Purchasable :: Purchasable (a.) Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt..

Venal :: Venal (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood..

Venally :: Venally (adv.) In a venal manner.

Juvenal :: Juvenal (n.) A youth.

Venality :: Venality (n.) The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official..

Hireling :: Hireling (a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.

Mercenary :: Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers..

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