venality

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So long as the venality is lodged in someone else - Thompson and Venables, Brady, Fritzl - we can reassure ourselves that there's nothing of the monster in us.

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  1. noun The condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption.
  2. noun The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.

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  • The constant exactions of the Princes convinced her of the utter hopelessness of satisfying their venality, and securing their allegiance, save by sacrifices which gradually tended to diminish her own power, and to compromise the interests of the Crown, while the people murmured at the burthens inflicted upon them in order to gratify the greed of the nobility. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2
  • "If Congressional leaders believe that the taxpayers should gives pay raises to this rogue's gallery of ineptitude and venality, they ought to step away from the spiked egg nog." —  news | OS | http://www.ocala.com
  • I'll refuse to see venality, hypocrisy and conspiracy everywhere I look.
  • The tarnishing of American evangelical Christianity by its association with Republican venality, however, is not the driving force behind Spencer's thesis. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • So, no, I don't "hate capitalism," and anyone who says I do only betrays his own ignorance and venality - two qualities that go hand in hand with the likes of Limbaugh and his fellow travelers on Fox TV. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
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  1. from Old French tenalite, French vénalité = Spanish venalidad = Portuguese venalidade = Italian venalità, from Late Latin venalita(t-)s, capability of being bought, from Latin venalis, purchasable: see venal.
 

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