venality

How To Use venality In A Sentence

• Dedicated to a sincere belief in the venality of man, refusing to let any sacred cow go ungored, it's like Curb Your Enthusiasm for a lower tax bracket. Funny, Silly Sunny Philly - Tuned In - TIME.com
• It's not like we've a shortage of venality, corruption and lust (not to mention hypocrisy) in this country.
• Detectives have a phrase they use to help determine the trail of guilt from crimes of venality: Follow the cash.
• They blame their current troubles mostly on the corruption, venality and incompetence of local officials.
• They fight to be true to themselves and good to others, and perhaps out of hatred for the sheer contemptible venality of capital's favorites.
• From this vantage point for the Democratic caucus to ostracize anyone connected to the Illinois Statehouse is the ultimate in venality and hubris. The Early Word: What’s Next in Illinois? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
• Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing.
• It is a movie that wants to show the venality, shallowness, bitterness, paranoia, mean-spiritedness and general desperation that most of us know lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood life.
• It is behaviour of such abject venality as to be almost beneath contempt.