Usually means: Corruption motivated by personal gain.
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  1. venality: Merriam-Webster
  2. venality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. venality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. venality: Collins English Dictionary
  5. venality: Vocabulary.com
  6. Venality, venality: Wordnik
  7. venality: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. venality: Wiktionary
  9. venality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. venality: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. venality: Dictionary.com
  12. Venality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Venality: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. venality: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. venality: Rhymezone
  16. Venality: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. venality: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. venality: FreeDictionary.org
  19. venality: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. venality: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. venality: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (venality)

▸ noun:  The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.

Similar:
venalness, salacity, corruptibility, vility, salaciousness, sleaze factor, vendibility, depravity, licentiousness, greediness, more...

Opposite:
integrity, honesty, incorruptibility

Types:
venal, corrupt, bribery, kickback, payola, nepotism, cronyism, patronage, more...

Adjectives:
political, official, universal, gross, such, own, shameless, human, judicial, scandalous, general

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Similar:
venalness, salacity, corruptibility, vility, salaciousness, sleaze factor, vendibility, depravity, licentiousness, greediness, more...

Opposite:
integrity, honesty, incorruptibility

Types:
venal, corrupt, bribery, kickback, payola, nepotism, cronyism, patronage, more...

Adjectives:
political, official, universal, gross, such, own, shameless, human, judicial, scandalous, general

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     black,     gray, more...



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