venality

Example Sentences

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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

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

He was familiar with the business’s unpredictability, not to mention its venality.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2020

"In my view, it sort of underscored his evilness, his venality, that he basically showed no remorse," Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino says in the film.

From Salon • May 30, 2020

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