corruptness
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Definitions
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- : guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- : debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
- : made inferior by errors or alterations: Scholars compared the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript with a more reliable Greek translation.
- : infected; tainted.
- : Archaic. decayed; putrid.
- : Computers. relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors: If the corrupt file won’t open, restore a previous save.
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- : to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.
- : to lower morally; pervert: to corrupt youth.
- : to alter for the worse; debase.
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Examples
When it saw the Taliban’s rapid rise to prominence in the war against the Afghan government, ISIS declared that the takeover was the result of a corrupt conspiracy between the United States and the Taliban.
In Vietnam we sided with a corrupt post-colonial government dominated by minority Catholics in a majority Buddhist nation.
In each case, the United States installed a corrupt, pro-Western regime before abandoning its support when the cost was deemed to outweigh the benefit.
He also once again grumbled that the “corrupt media” had taken his previous comments out of context.
With Bulgaria ranked as the EU’s most corrupt country, no activity can really be ruled out.
These young adults have voluntarily checked out of a political system they consider corrupt and dysfunctional.
Cuba, already corrupt, will have to avoid becoming even more so when American investment pours in.
So, is Rampal really that different from a corrupt, charismatic megachurch leader felled by scandal?
That suggestion turns absurd when you consider the long list of corrupt Democrat politicians Lynch has sent to prison.
This corrupt bargain results in a decade-long stasis, with far-reaching implications.
He will tell you that evil communications corrupt good manners, and pitch defiles.
It is tolerably certain that this is a corrupt form of the passage, and only makes the matter darker.
The administration had been too corrupt, the exactions too heavy to be longer borne, when reform appeared to be within reach.
Their speech is a dialect called Chabucano—a mixture of very corrupt Spanish and native tongues.