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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venality
Noun
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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
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The series is centered on organized crime and corruption in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, using real-life characters like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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At the same time, a statewide grand jury, the FBI and state prosecutors were investigating corruption among public officials, including some in Broward schools.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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The insistence on common sense in America, with its echo in Donald Trump’s rhetoric, had a peculiar moral dimension, almost as if the cultural health and vigor of this society depended on its not succumbing to the decadence of the Old World.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Director Kip Williams, the former director of the Sydney Theatre Company who brought the play from Australia to the West End and finally to New York, retrofits Oscar Wilde’s 1890 classic of vanity and decadence to a 2025 mindset and visual style.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 May 2025
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These trade shifts are causing environmental degradation.—
Simi Thambi,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Violence, corruption and environmental degradation have saturated the avocado trade there, causing the U.S. to briefly stop imports and senators to agitate for action by the federal government.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The document accused Jewish people of promoting white genocide and degeneracy.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That's a perversion of the separation of powers and the role of an independent Justice Department.—
Ryan Lucas,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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These opposition movements shared one common goal: exposing the fallacies of the communist perversion of truth.—
Andrew Nagorski,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Nov. 2012
Noun
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Some have questioned whether the slim design of the phone could mean a drop in battery capacity and heat dissipation.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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In other words, extravagant costumes, elaborate floats, joyful music and dancing, street parades, lots of drinking and enough dissipation to last until the next one are the ingredients for a legendary Carnival.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For decades, cannabis was associated with rebellion, subversion, and in some cases, criminality.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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This shift undermines the association of cannabis with criminality or deviance.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Venality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venality. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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