venality

Example Sentences

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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

Landlords are opposed to this and other measures and not out of venality.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Chucking at the venality of the people who hold the world and care nothing about anyone on it who isn't them is a mild temporary antidote to what ails us.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021

He was familiar with the business’s unpredictability, not to mention its venality.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020

"That it would be much better to allow venality and the 'droit annuel' to continue to exist, than to abolish these two establishments, which are not to be changed suddenly without shaking the state."

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)