venality
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More broadly the play is a tart vivisection of human pettiness and venality, as one by one the characters’ prejudices, peccadilloes and blinkered views are exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
You perceive Hale’s true colors immediately through those associations, just as you can see Ernest’s venality through DiCaprio’s immediately recognizable brand of boyish corruptibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
There are times when I complete a cartoon and feel as if I did not quite capture the full venality of my target.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
He was familiar with the business’s unpredictability, not to mention its venality.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
The question here is not only one concerning the venality of the vote, which is a shameful act, punishable, moreover, by the laws; but it embraces disinterestedness in a wider sense.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
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