What's the difference between honest and venal?

Honest


Definition:

  • (a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
  • (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
  • (a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
  • (a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
  • (a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
  • (2) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (3) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
  • (4) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (5) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
  • (6) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
  • (7) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
  • (8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (9) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
  • (10) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
  • (11) The physician embarking on the long-term management of burned children must have a very strong and honest relationship with the patient and family or guardians and must use all available resources, including physical and occupational therapists, social workers, and others, over the course of the effort.
  • (12) First, they were asked to complete them honestly, reporting accurately on their behaviour patterns.
  • (13) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
  • (14) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
  • (15) "I'm just trying to be objective and honest," he says.
  • (16) Camila Batmanghelidjh is one of the most kind-hearted, honest and reliable people I know, and would do anything not only for her young people but for young people in general.
  • (17) Another – the problem they failed to solve at the last election – is how you write an honest manifesto of your liberalism when you know and the voters know that, if you do get to see power again, it will be shared with someone else.
  • (18) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
  • (19) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
  • (20) Green party leader Natalie Bennett came unstuck by trying to be honest | Letters: Sara Parkin, Brian Wilson and Tim Daniel Read more Having announced the idea of a universal £72-a-week income in January, the party has struggled to say how it would raise the billions of pounds needed to implement the policy and faced questions about whether it would harm the poorest people.

Venal


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not about who is tied to the most money – "there are so many people you could think should be taken" – but about who is judged to be too busy establishing their own kingdoms and using the party's authority purely for their own venal ends.
  • (2) The political charge sheet is long: incompetence, weakness, venality.
  • (3) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
  • (4) Given the venality of the system, Putin even said he could empathise with the protesters in Maidan square .
  • (5) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (6) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (7) Plasma cadmium and zinc were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in inferior venal caval or peripheral venous blood in thrity hypertensive patients and fifteen normal subjects.
  • (8) The difference between the "rotten apple" (venal or incompetent physician) and the "bad apple" (careless or aggressive physician) is cited.
  • (9) Pigs to peerages: Lord Ashcroft’s act of revenge shows British politics at its venal worst | Simon Jenkins Read more Working for Gordon Brown , a man of Victorian sensibilities and a volatile temper, the second call was invariably greeted with the single word “What?
  • (10) Changes in the choroidal vasculature include: Venal focal dilations and narrowings, increased tortuosity, hypercellularity, increased formation of vascular loops and microaneurysms in choriocapillaries and formation of sinus-like structures between choroidal lobules.
  • (11) The restoration of integrity in banking will not happen without changes in the law to introduce serious criminal sanctions against venal traders and grossly negligent bosses.
  • (12) Thus the therapeutic usefulness for the treatment of chronic venal insufficiency is proven.
  • (13) Nice for those in the art world who view this approach as testimony to my venality, shallowness, malevolence.
  • (14) Did the Kelly affair crystallise everything that was wrong and venal about the whole Iraq adventure for Yorke?
  • (15) Corporations-are-people got the righteous ink, but the venal sin at the heart of Citizens United lies in the appalling equivocation that declares money to be speech.
  • (16) Yet some analysts say that the drive has simply pushed lavish official banquets and venal gift-giving underground .
  • (17) Dan Snyder’s former general manager, Vinny Cerrato, seems to suspect as much , and every crass venal thing everyone knows about Dan Snyder suggests Cerrato isn’t wrong.
  • (18) The authors, American researchers attached to special forces, conclude that the weakness and venality of the government in Kabul is an increasing source of strength for the insurgents.
  • (19) The country is virtually bankrupt ; Yanukovych stole billions from his own treasury, merely the latest in a long line of venal Ukrainian politicians who have looted the state.
  • (20) For local leaders, blaming al-Qaida both deflects blame from their own inefficiency and venality as well as potentially unlocking considerable financial, diplomatic and security assistance from the west.