Venality

His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

In this case, our nation’s overlords aren’t dummies, but might be defined by cunning, self-interest, venality, delusion, vanity or mental decline.

It certainly won’t be anywhere near the colossal venality that is perpetuated at the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under the guise of giving money to the poor.

My venality is exposed and it’s not a pretty sight; grubby sin, mean omission, uncharitable gossip, this underbelly or shadow side, this less of me.

On a number of such occasions, Obasanjo has labelled all sorts of institutions within Nigeria as only for those institutions to respond back that he is the very author of such venality!

The U.N. combines endless lofty rhetoric with an equally endless capacity for venality and corruption.

The venality is so baroque, the vulgarity so ostentatious, the inconsistencies so stark, the incompetence so epic and the lies so brazen, it leaves you speechless.

Demosthenes accused the other envoys of venality and of facilitating Philip's plans with their stance.

Other proposals followed with the same success: the equality of legal punishment, admission of all to public office, abolition of venality in office, The buying and selling of high office.

Pope Leo XIII (Motu Proprio, 4 July 1898) most solemnly decreed the abolition of all venality in the transfer or Collation of the said offices.

Soon the "good old days" of nepotism and venality were restored.

Talleyrand's venality was celebrated; in the tradition of the ancien régime, he expected to be paid for the state duties he performed—whether these can properly be called "bribes" is open to debate.