Venality …
- The quality or fact of being for sale.
- The quality of being venal; readiness to give support or favour in return for profit or reward; prostitution of talents or principles for mercenary considerations.
Perhaps not what you would want in your eulogy.
Besides highlighting his corruptibility Paul Keating also suggested that Neville Wran had a “PhD in poetic profanity”.
Poor Neville, I guess that was the eulogy he had to have.
bobmcgee 