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• n  prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward

• Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians.
• Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader, Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who sees Christine's case as another heinous example of the police department's venality.
• The heresy was aided by the corruption of the clergy of the timeagainst whose wenching and venality the puritanism of the "Pure'' was an attractive contrast.

News & Articles

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• Jim Dey: Illinois corruption now up in lights
  Most people who pay attention know that government in this state is relentlessly corrupt, to the point that Illinoisans laugh at the extent of the venality and residents of other states laugh at Illinoisans for putting up with it. But is there a limit beyond which the oh-so-tolerant people of Illinois won't go in living with the state's culture of corruption? Most people who pay attention know ...
  Sept. 7, 2013 - IlliniHQ.com

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in Heritage.org
  Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition,Thomas Jefferson wrote in his 1787 Notes on the State of Virginia.
• Norman Ornstein in eTalkinghead
  As American Enterprise Institute Scholar Norman Ornstein wrote "I don't think we have had something of this scope, arrogance and sheer venality in our lifetimes. It is building to an explosion, one that could create immense collateral damage within...
• Gordon Brown in This is London
  The Gautrain story confirms the hard reality that as long as the racist conviction that Africans are naturally prone to corruption, venality and mismanagement persists, so long must we remain on guard to fight the canards that will be peddled,... Thabo Mbeki http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHi7lAXP4NkNmUK8EizMzw_FSLodQ Dispatch Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/12/09/SouthAfrica/cab.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEJfa3kioeb6zXaUHjiuAapZlS6FQ Dec 8, 2006 107419 140888 venally A source close to Mr Brown said: The Tories may be desperate to smear Gordon's character at every turn, but their assumption that all politicians are venally corrupt says more about them than it does about him."