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

For many in the troubled North African nation of some 7 million, the dams’ disintegration has become a symbol of both the dysfunction and venality of Libya’s political class.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Taub and Sultan still make us care about Faraz and Tamar, however, and the show’s evocations of Iranian venality and nepotism and brutal Israeli realpolitik are more pointed than ever.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

If there were not venality and low ambition, however, to work upon, there were other national traits no less open to the seductive arts of a crafty administration.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James