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UK
/kəɹˈʌpt/
]
[ US /kɝˈəpt/ ]
[ US /kɝˈəpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking in integrity
humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation
a corrupt and incompetent city government -
containing errors or alterations
spoke a corrupted version of the language
a corrupt text -
touched by rot or decay
`corrupt' is archaic
tainted bacon - not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
VERB
- alter from the original
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corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Do school counselors subvert young children?
corrupt the morals
debauch the young people with wine and women
Socrates was accused of corrupting young men -
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
sully someone's reputation -
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
This judge can be bought
How To Use corrupt In A Sentence
- After a long, tedious sail, during which I was subjected to every discomfort, and exposure to the weather, as well as jeers and insults that effervesced from a corrupt heart, where they had been concealed for so many years, we reached a spot near enough to the land to discover a cluster of orange trees and a cabin. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
- He had accused three opposition members of corrupt practices.
- Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
- The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption.
- The company's president is already in jail on corruption charges. Times, Sunday Times
- In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
- It features a group of con artists with a modicum of honour: they only steal from the greedy and the morally corrupt.
- The main methods of obtaining that information were blagging or corruption.
- Newspapers have, however, reported that prosecutors are convinced the investigating magistrate in charge of a corruption and fraud inquiry involving the regional governments of the Balearic Islands and Valencia will soon officially name him as a suspect in the case. Spain's king blocks scandal-hit son-in-law from royal duties
- Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth