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venality

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

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being venal; openness to bribery or corruption.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of venality1

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

It’s a reminder that the grandest plans for fighting climate change can fall prey to simple human venality.

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.

Even now, he is unwilling to take responsibility for the venality that landed him in jail.

There was much talk of jobs and fairness and the enduring venality of Marco Rubio.

But as Palin also demonstrated, eventually, evidence of venality and incompetence seeps in with the public at large.

On the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in Egypt.

He was a reformer of abuses, publishing the most severe acts against venality, and deciding quarrels on principles of justice.

He saw the power of reconstruction, its ignorance, its venality accentuated to a degree that provoked his abhorrence.

A Parliament which has exhibited its venality so openly can have little pretension to public confidence.

He knows the corrupt workings of politicians, the venality of biased courts, the weakness of the human heart when tempted by gold.

There was nothing shocking in all this venality to the bulk of the Johannesburg speculator class and others of that category.

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