venality

[ vee-nal-i-tee, vuh- ]

noun

Origin of venality

From the Late Latin word vēnālitas, dating back to 1605–15. See venal, -ity

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It’s a reminder that the grandest plans for fighting climate change can fall prey to simple human venality.
The Download: carbon capture subsidies, and Japan’s nuclear U-turn | Rhiannon Williams | August 25, 2022 | MIT Technology Review
Over 900,000 Americans are likely dead of this disease, many of them because of the incompetence, self-serving politics and venality of the last administration.
The Pandemic Is a $50 Billion Test That Rich Countries Are Failing | David Rothkopf | July 22, 2021 | The Daily Beast
Even now, he is unwilling to take responsibility for the venality that landed him in jail.
The Messy, Sordid Story of Jim Greer, Charlie Crist’s Man to a Fault | Rick Wilson | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
There was much talk of jobs and fairness and the enduring venality of Marco Rubio.
Black American Leadership Alliance D.C. Anti-Immigration Rally Wilts | Michelle Cottle | July 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
But as Palin also demonstrated, eventually, evidence of venality and incompetence seeps in with the public at large.
Cain Plays the Victim Card | Michelle Goldberg | October 31, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

On the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in Egypt.
Hosni Mubarak's Final Tragedy | Christopher Dickey | February 13, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He was a reformer of abuses, publishing the most severe acts against venality, and deciding quarrels on principles of justice.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V | John Lord
He saw the power of reconstruction, its ignorance, its venality accentuated to a degree that provoked his abhorrence.
The Broken Sword | Dennison Worthington
A Parliament which has exhibited its venality so openly can have little pretension to public confidence.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) | Charles James Lever
He knows the corrupt workings of politicians, the venality of biased courts, the weakness of the human heart when tempted by gold.
The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower
There was nothing shocking in all this venality to the bulk of the Johannesburg speculator class and others of that category.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) | C. H. Thomas

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