venality
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The condition of being open to bribery or corruptly for sale.
The venality of the local officials meant every permit had its price.
Business noun
The condition of being open to bribery or morally corrupt for personal gain.
The inquiry laid bare a venality at the top that had normalised kickbacks on every contract.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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