Venality
noun
The quality of being open to bribery or overly motivated by money.
The venality of the official was exposed when he was caught accepting a bribe.
Often appears as...
- exhibit venality
- corruption and venality
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The quality of being open to bribery or overly motivated by money.
The venality of the official was exposed when he was caught accepting a bribe.
Often appears as...
- exhibit venality
- corruption and venality
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Venality implies a judgmental view of someone's actions, suggesting moral corruption.
The jury looked down on the venality of the politician.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Casual
Use 'venality' in formal contexts, like news reports or academic discussions, rather than everyday conversation.
The article highlighted the venality within the organization.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bribery
Venality can refer to being motivated by money in ways other than direct bribery, like unethical behavior for financial gain.
The venality of the leaders led to unfair labor practices.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Venality implies a judgmental view of someone's actions, suggesting moral corruption.
The jury looked down on the venality of the politician.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Casual
Use 'venality' in formal contexts, like news reports or academic discussions, rather than everyday conversation.
The article highlighted the venality within the organization.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bribery
Venality can refer to being motivated by money in ways other than direct bribery, like unethical behavior for financial gain.
The venality of the leaders led to unfair labor practices.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Venality implies a judgmental view of someone's actions, suggesting moral corruption.
The jury looked down on the venality of the politician.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Casual
Use 'venality' in formal contexts, like news reports or academic discussions, rather than everyday conversation.
The article highlighted the venality within the organization.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bribery
Venality can refer to being motivated by money in ways other than direct bribery, like unethical behavior for financial gain.
The venality of the leaders led to unfair labor practices.
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Quote examples
Julian Baggini
British Author
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
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Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
There's a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.
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David Mamet
American Dramatist
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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Vikas Swarup
Indian Novelist
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
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James Surowiecki
American Journalist
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Quote examples
Julian Baggini
British Author
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
Quote examples
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Quote examples
Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
Quote examples
Rick Wilson
American Author
There's a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.
Quote examples
David Mamet
American Dramatist
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
Quote examples
Vikas Swarup
Indian Novelist
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
Quote examples
James Surowiecki
American Journalist
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
Quote examples
Thomas Jefferson
American President
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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