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

Even more efficient as a cause of misery to the people and hostility towards the Church was the venality of many of the episcopal courts.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles