venality

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Venality does have a high public profile in today’s art world, but it has only a modest presence in the day-to-day life of art.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2019

Venality, vanity and idiocy rule in our times, but judging from the amusing caricature show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we’re no worse than past eras.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 30, 2011

Venality was not in fashion in those days, and the emperor suffered a complete overthrow.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Venality was venal, and, its consent being necessary to the salvation of the state, had to be bought.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Venality sculks no longer in the dark, but snatches the bribe in publick; and prostitution issues forth without shame, glittering with the ornaments of successful wickedness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel