Venality is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VENALITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being venal, or purchasable
• The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official.
• prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
• the condition or quality of being venal, openness to bribery or corruption.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being venal

Words related to VENALITY

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How to use VENALITY in a sentence

• The ultimate cause which threw power into the hands of the rich and noble was the venality of the people.
• He was a reformer of abuses, publishing the most severe acts against venality, and deciding quarrels on principles of justice.
• He resembled Chrysostom at Constantinople, when he denounced the vanity of Eudoxia and the venality of Eutropius.
• In 1839 the penalties against the Chinese were somewhat mitigated, but those against the magistrates were still maintained on account of their venality.
• Had he strength enough to break through the meshes of falsehood and venality which are woven so close about him, he might accomplish some solid good.
• Swift accused him, as Lord-lieutenant, of shameless depravity of manners, of injustice, greed, and gross venality.
• And yet the evils of that period were due far more to the venality and indifference of white men than to the incapacity of black voters.
• The ferocity, the venality, the profligate expenditure, the delirious excitement of contested elections have made an indelible mark on our political history.
• Muddle and venality do not, however, exhaust the demonstrated vices of individualism.
• A better case is to be made against it for what I will call, using the word in its least offensive sense, its venality.
• This venality will be far more dangerous to the Allied countries after the war than during its continuance.
• The very laws of Congress are set down as the results of personal venality or ambition.
• When we look into the other classes of the community, the same charge of venality and corruption meets us again.
• The courts of law have something of the promptitude of oriental justice, without its flagrant venality.
• Venality, that dogs great efforts, undoubtedly there was.
• Venality reigned throughout every department of the public administration.
• A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age, and the treasury trembled at the name of Pitt, through all classes of venality.
• In this work the iniquitous venality of the public functionaries, and even the conduct of the sovereign, was scrutinized and censured with great freedom.
• I think thousands of you are satisfied of the venality of many of our public servants.
• I am not insinuating that any charge of venality can attach to him.
• But there has been venality, too, both crude and subtle.
• The forms and modes of English jurisprudence are so much like our own, as to create the impression that the administration of justice is equally free from venality and favour.
• Their books were subjected to the same committee that carried on the former inquiry, and a surprising scene of venality and corruption was soon disclosed.
• Reasons of equal strength and solidity will never be wanting to the patrons and ministers of corruption and venality.
• This, however, only served as a cloak for venality and corruption.
• He seeks to impress upon his readers the venality of letters and the general debasement of character and of talent that are prevalent in that capital.
• Certainly venality and heredity in this matter are evils, but they are evils of long standing.
• There was nothing shocking in all this venality to the bulk of the Johannesburg speculator class and others of that category.
• I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty.
• I had felt her physical attraction, and I knew that only by putting myself beyond its pale could I be true to my own convictions as to her venality.

Similar words containing VENAL without suffix ity

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