(1) It's a role which required McConaughey to lose an awful lot of weight, which is something that does always impress awards electorates — and he was still markedly gaunt for his cameo in Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street as the cynical trader who mentors DiCaprio's still uncorrupted broker in the ways of un-righteousness.
(2) It is no surprise that even though we're one of the most stable societies in the world and one of its most uncorrupt, we feel massively disconnected from the discourse of those we elect.
(3) The results show that AAS does not cripple the MAD method, and that phases uncorrupted by these effects can be recovered.
(4) The normal seems exceptional – free education, the rule of law, a relatively uncorrupted democracy, liberal traditions.
(5) The country's Liberal Party was mired in trouble – if you want the details, it had been tainted by a slush-fund scandal in Quebec – and some of its younger Turks saw in Ignatieff a leader uncorrupted by the small matter of previous involvement in politics.
(6) But the DA contends that Cape Town is the best-run city in the country , with uncorrupted financial management, infrastructure spending and public service delivery that is the envy of its counterparts.
(7) O2 consumption and CO2 production values calculated from data corrupted by a simulated dynamic process return to near the uncorrupted values after correction.
(8) The administration was both extraordinarily pedantic and uncorrupt.
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.