0 the state or quality of being venal (= willing to behave dishonestly in exchange for money):
His reputation has been defined by allegations of corruption and venality.
His best-known novel is a bitter study of the venality of the literary world.
This is what you get when people finally refuse to put up with official corruption, venality, and stupidity.
The play is intended as a musical satire on the venality of government.
His brutality and venality should not go unpunished.
Venality seems to have had one foot in the camp of abject cronyism, and the other in that of rampant commercialism.
And, from a social point of view, did venality contribute to the renewal of the elites, through the access of new members of bourgeois origin?
Nevertheless, there are still lacking exhaustive monographs on sales and, in particular, analyses of the social and political meanings of venality.
The absence of blood in the archipelago's politics must not displace venality's pivotal role in it.
No other factor has contributed more to the weakening and demoralization of the bourgeoisie than the venality of office.
