venality

noun

Definition of venalitynext
as in shamelessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venality
  1. profligacy
  2. corruption
  3. decadence
  4. degradation
  5. degeneracy
  6. perversion
  7. dissipation
  8. criminality
Noun
  • On the balance of the play, Arsenal probably deserved more than nothing last season and the inverse was true at Villa Park on Saturday evening, decided by the host’s profligacy and conceding at a stage when Arsenal were stumbling.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • For stock investors, surging yields due to fiscal profligacy (as opposed to strong economic growth) would likely weigh on the stock market.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of profligacy
Noun
  • Journalists and prosecutors have suggested Trump could order the Justice Department to dismiss the federal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams or pardon him if he’s convicted.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • This couldn’t be further from the truth—especially the part about Trump’s corruption and self-dealing being no different from the norm—but Biden is doing the work of people who want to wreck the best aspects of America’s democratic ethos.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • There’s an element of decadence to the menu, which serves contemporary—even avant-garde—Italian cuisine.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Opened in 1889 as the first truly high-end hotel in Britain, The Savoy has been at the forefront of decadence ever since.
    Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of decadence
Noun
  • Pumping to supply farms and cities has contributed to the ecological degradation of the Delta, where fish populations have suffered declines in recent years.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Even slightly warm bread will produce condensation within its packaging, which leads to instant quality degradation and faster spoilage.
    Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • There’s an itch to depict Diddy as a Black Jeffrey Epstein, the ringleader of clandestine, A-list perversion.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • What gives diamond this ability for heat dissipation?
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Just as importantly, this enables building complex models of the operating environment as well as other robots without burdening the on-robot processing, which is typically constrained by cost, power consumption, heat dissipation and other constraints.
    Florian Pestoni, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • The New York Times: The end of the Trump cases leaves the limits on presidential criminality unclear.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
  • World Liberty Financial didn’t respond to my requests for comments about Herro’s business record, the potential for conflicts of interest by Trump, the roles of his family members in the firm, or the FBI’s judgment about the criminality of crypto.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
Definition of criminality
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