venality

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venality
Noun
  • But while profligacy was the bigger issue under their previous manager, chance creation has taken over that mantle under Amorim.
    Mark Carey, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Many will point to Nazareth, who entered the fray at the hour mark along with Andreia Jacinto and Lucia Alves, as the key to Portugal reducing England to a cardboard box in the rain, as well as the visitors’ own profligacy.
    Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Confidential finds a powerful political lobbyist shot to death, his apparent suicide highlighting a bizarre turn in Ohio’s largest public corruption case accidentaly uncovered by federal investigators that was nearly concealed by loose super PAC campaign financing rules.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
  • When their late boss, Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano), is reported to have engaged in corruption tied to drug cartels, Mike and Marcus vow to clear his name.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Baggy bombers were spotted on the runway at Saint Laurent’s spring 2025 fashion show, which clearly nodded to the decade of decadence, while boho styles — including Penny Lane coats — have seen a major resurgence in the past year.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 9 Mar. 2025
  • After all, Capricorn is an Earth sign and indulges in pleasures and decadence.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Sharon Perez, senior business development manager at Lenzing Group, noted that there are three potential ways to design with a product’s end of life in mind: circularity, degradation and durability.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Many countries and regions are recognizing the importance of integrating conservation principles into their agricultural practices, particularly in areas facing significant agricultural challenges due to climate change, soil degradation, and resource scarcity.
    Ellen Choi, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If the mother relied on devices, media, or a nanny to provide care, her children were widely believed to be in danger of sliding into degeneracy.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.
    Kary Love, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The career professionals at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, led by Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, refused, as Bove’s plan was a perversion of the government’s power to prosecute for partisan political ends.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Its graphene cooling membrane and advanced heat dissipation ensure reliability, even under heavy use, keeping internal temperatures below 110°C and external ones below 60°C.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2025
  • According to Power Plant Efficiency, natural gas and oil power plants operate between 33% - 60% and 30% respectively due to heat dissipation.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Regarding the migrants sent to Guantánamo Bay, the Trump Administration has not provided sufficient proof of their status and criminality.
    Made by History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The medical examiner’s office would automatically do an autopsy if foul play or criminality was suspected, but there is none, so the office did not overrule the family’s decision.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Venality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venality. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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