Venal

Here was a venal and stupid crook who killed his own wife in the clumsiest of scams, and did so under the presumption that any Black man’s life was worth less than his own.

Politicians of both parties are venal reprobates who parade with American flags on their chests as they betray their country.

You are both venal and extremely violent.

Contrary to what the subprime crisis, the Libor scandal and the periodic tax-dodging outrages might lead us to believe, they are not venal megalomaniacs.

It is always the individual citizens, unable to fight a corrupt and venal system, who suffer.

My Lords, the Zimbabweans are a people of truly democratic spirit who are ruled by a venal and vicious mob of soldiers and policemen who have survived the demise of (the late former President) Robert Mugabe, to whom they owe their positions.

Not just venal and narcissistic, but unable to complete a sentence.

She may be one of the most venal Members of Congress ever to serve there.

But tropes of noble heroes and venal villains are not the best way of understanding the world.

He, alas, is desirous of sinking his teeth into Dr Fanning’s veiny, venal neck and duly does so, turning Fanning (Jamie McShane) into Patient Zero for a vampiric virus that carries the potential to save mankind from all the ills living flesh is heir to.

It’s a corrupt, venal, amoral place where pretty much any kind of behaviour, however disgusting, is tolerated if the dollars still pour in at the box office.

The notion of a “good ruler” in Beijing — a leader whose noble intentions are thwarted only by venal local bureaucrats — runs deep.

Agreed, but the Interwebs makes the stupid and venal easier to spread.

Similarly, John Basiulis plays Tom’s drunken father and a venal Lord Hertford.

So what he really means is that a ban on glyphosphate would be a disaster for him and his venal friends who dominate Brazil.

Although his playing evolved over the years, it was noted throughout for the tension between the idealistic aspects and the weaker, venal aspects of Macbeth's character.