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US
/kɝˈəptɪbəɫ/
]
[ UK /kəɹˈʌptəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈʌptəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of being corrupted
a venal police officer
dishonest politicians
a purchasable senator
corruptible judges
How To Use corruptible In A Sentence
- In time, like all corruptible passions of the flesh, this one would simply burn itself out.
- Prima_ are neither ingenerable nor incorruptible Substances; since by his _Alkahest_ some of them may be produc'd of Bodies that were before of another Denomination; and by the same powerfull _Menstruum_ all of them may be reduc'd into insipid Water. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
- Gold has been prized because it is the most inert metal, changeless and incorruptible.
- The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
- Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
- By nature they are eternal and incorruptible, but Eriugena also thinks of individual created things as located spatially and temporally.
- It would follow, then, that Christ's body was corruptible, which is unseemly. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
- I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
- He is generally counted as incorruptible good official of the law.
- incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society