venality

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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

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

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020

During a visit this past March, he was highly energized, particularly when discussing what he sees as Wilson's venality, power-lust, and imaginative bankruptcy.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2020

After what we have stated respecting the venality of the administrative departments, it is easy to conceive the malversations that must abound in the naval arsenals.

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