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
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
Let editors banish all party control and venality from the press and send forth rays of living light that will purify our political and moral atmosphere—then our government will be healthful, vigorous and strong.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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