Venality
[viː'nælətɪ]
Definition
(noun.) prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mercenariness.
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Examples
- It was the quick-changing warmth and venality and brilliant warm utterance he loved in his friend. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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