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

Putin biographer Masha Gessen called Putin “the man without a face,” alluding not only to his resolutely nondescript quality, but his canniness in using it to conceal sharp-edged ambition and deep-seated venality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 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

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

All the patriots of the American Revolution whose opinions we know, deprecated the venality of the press.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll