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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /ˈviːnəl/

Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.

Määritelmät

Adjektiivit

  1. venous; pertaining to veins
  2. (archaic) For sale; available for purchase.
  3. Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
  4. Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
  5. (of behaviour etc.) Corrupt, mercenary.

Esimerkit

  • Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.
  • Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, (...) as those who have lately figured on the political stage.

Taivutusmuodot

Komparatiivimore venal
Superlatiivimost venal