| Main Entry: | venal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bribable, corruptible |
Synonyms: |
amoral, bent*, buyable, conscienceless, corrupt, crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, immoral, mercenary, on the take, padded, purchasable, unethical, unprincipled, unprofessional, unscrupulous |
| Notes: | venal is 'corruptible, unscrupulous'; venial is 'forgivable; not criminal' |
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intended for financial gain |
Synonyms: |
Wall Street, exploited, for profit, investment, materialistic, mercenary, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, profitmaking, venal |
Antonyms: |
noncommercial, not-for-profit |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
Synonyms: |
base, bent, bribable, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, exploiting, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, gone to the dogs, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, on the take, open, padded, perfidious, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, suborned, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, wide open |
Antonyms: |
decent, honest, honorable, principled, pure, trustworthy, truthful, uncorrupt, upright |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, hypocritical |
Synonyms: |
apostate, base, beguiling, canting, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, devious, dishonorable, disloyal, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, falsehearted, forsworn, foul, lying, malevolent, malicious, mean, misleading, mythomaniac, perfidious, perjured, rascally, recreant, renegade, scoundrelly, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, underhanded, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, villainous, wicked |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
Antonyms: |
genuine, honest, just, reliable, right, straight, true, truthful |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, covetous, desirous, extorting, extortionate, grabby, itchy, mean, miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted, usurious, venal |
Antonyms: |
generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, bribable, corrupt, covetous, grabby, grasping, miserly, money-grubbing, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal |
Antonyms: |
generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | rotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, immoral |
Synonyms: |
bent, bribable, contaminated, corrupt, crooked, debauched, deceitful, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirtied, dishonorable, disloyal, faithless, filthy, flagitious, impure, mercenary, nefarious, perfidious, perverse, polluted, soiled, sullied, tainted, treacherous, unclean, untrustworthy, venal, vicious, villainous, vitiated |
Antonyms: |
decent, good, honest, moral, trustworthy, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | sordid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, bad, low |
Synonyms: |
abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, poor, scurvy, seedy, self-seeking, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, sleazy, slovenly, slum, slummy, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched |
Antonyms: |
good, honorable, reputable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | unprincipled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, amoral, bent*, cheating, conscienceless, crooked, deceitful, devious, dirty-dealing, dishonest, dissolute, double-crossing, double-dealing, immoral, licentious, mercentary, praetorian, profligate, reprobate, shady, sly, stop-at-nothing, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unconscionable, underhand, unethical, unprofessional, unscrupulous, venal, wanton |
Antonyms: |
ethical, moral, principled |
| Main Entry: | unscrupulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral |
Synonyms: |
arrant, base, casuistic, conscienceless, corrupt, crafty, crooked, deceitful, degraded, degrading, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, exploitative, illegal, improper, low-down, mercenary, perfidious, petty, questionable, recreant, ruthless, scandalous, scheming, self-seeking, selfish, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, sly, two-faced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unprincipled, unworthy, venal, wicked, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
ethical, good, moral, principled, scrupulous |