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venality

/vee-nal-i-tee, vuh-/US // viˈnæl ɪ ti, və- //

流氓行为,腐败行为,坏事,腐败

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition or quality of being venal; openness to bribery or corruption.

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Examples

  • Over 900,000 Americans are likely dead of this disease, many of them because of the incompetence, self-serving politics and venality of the last administration.

  • Even now, he is unwilling to take responsibility for the venality that landed him in jail.

  • There was much talk of jobs and fairness and the enduring venality of Marco Rubio.

  • But as Palin also demonstrated, eventually, evidence of venality and incompetence seeps in with the public at large.

  • On the contrary, vanity more than venality was the problem at the top in Egypt.

  • He was a reformer of abuses, publishing the most severe acts against venality, and deciding quarrels on principles of justice.

  • He saw the power of reconstruction, its ignorance, its venality accentuated to a degree that provoked his abhorrence.

  • A Parliament which has exhibited its venality so openly can have little pretension to public confidence.

  • He knows the corrupt workings of politicians, the venality of biased courts, the weakness of the human heart when tempted by gold.

  • There was nothing shocking in all this venality to the bulk of the Johannesburg speculator class and others of that category.