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UK
/vɛnˈælɪti/
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[ US /vɪˈnæɫɪti/ ]
[ US /vɪˈnæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
How To Use venality In A Sentence
- Accusations of venality, incompetence and corruption dogged him throughout his career, and history has rarely been kind to him.
- It made sense to him, he grasped the kind of venality in play here. Mirage
- There was no such system of rotten boroughs, no such domination of a landed aristocracy, throughout the South as has been imagined, and venality, which is the disgrace of current politics, was practically unknown. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
- Mielke and Stiller had the same interests, venality and power, which were competitive rather than complementary. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- Though Pepys gives many similar honest and unblushing accounts of wholesome venality and decadence, much more is concerned with events of the day.
- He has opposed the Court and the Prince alike, and the magistrates themselves regard him as a dangerous man, with those notions a lui about venality, and his power and individuality, and therefore is factious, and when the Court demands a Frondeur there will be no one except perhaps old Mole to cry out in his defence, and Stray Pearls
- Back then, the venality of the criminals was often matched by the corruption of the police.
- Then, when it’s proven once again, we sit back in sanctimonious self-righteousness shocked, absolutely shocked, about humankind’s venality. The Early Word: Obama Meets the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
- One grieves for the good, decent and Honourable Members of Parliament - there are some - but far too many have been found out in venality. The Moving Finger Wrote