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venality

[vee-nal-i-tee, vuh-] / viˈnæl ɪ ti, və- /
NOUN
corruptness
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HBO’s “The Franchise” strives to work all the silliness and venality we’ve come to expect into an up-to-the-minute spoof of superhero IP-making.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

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

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020

"In my view, it sort of underscored his evilness, his venality, that he basically showed no remorse," Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino says in the film.

From Salon • May 30, 2020

This is one of the chief causes of the venality and of the defective condition of the Russian administrative departments.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de