corrupt

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