venal
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Open to bribery and willing to betray principle for money.
A venal official, he would sign any permit for the right envelope of cash.
Business adjective
Open to bribery; willing to act dishonestly in return for money.
A venal procurement officer had waved through inflated invoices in exchange for cash.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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