Crossword-Solution: VENALITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Venality | n. | 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. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “VENALITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Accessibility to bribery. | 1 answer |
| Corruptible nature | 1 answer |
| Corruptness. | 1 answer |
| vendibility | 1 answer |
| Corruptible | 4 answers |
| shadiness | 4 answers |
| Avarice | 21 answers |
| Greed | 29 answers |
| viciousness | 67 answers |
| Outrage | 69 answers |
| Wickedness. | 70 answers |
| Deceit | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VENALITY (5)
Only his own elegant languor had prevented the universal recognition of this and his triumph over the envy of professionals and the venality of critics.
But long before the advent of the Kinglakes its glory had departed; its manufactures had died out, its society become Philistine and bourgeois—“little men who walk in narrow ways”—while from pre-eminence in electoral venality among English boroughs it was saved only by the near proximity of Bridgewater.
The doctor’s alarms, his unscrupulous venality, the simulated illness, my own dismissal, each fitted in its obvious place, and not even the last had power as yet to mar my joy in the one central fact to which all the rest were as tapers to the sun.
They abused their fortune, without considering their past, or their future, condition; and their rapine and venality could be equalled only by the extravagance of their dissipations.
And yet so low are they now reduced, by the injustice of magistrates and the venality of collectors, that many of their members, renouncing their dignity and their country, have taken refuge in distant and obscure exile.” He urges, and even compels, their return to their respective cities; but he removes the grievance which had forced them to desert the exercise of their municipal functions.
Quotes with VENALITY (3)
The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the end disappointed by the failure of sc…
You are asking us to lie, Colonel?""I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it...
The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd seen too much by then. Too much warfare, too much poverty, too much greed, all in the service of rapacious progress. A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression — nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature, and the way unchecked urban growth threw …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1953–2005).