[
UK
/kəɹˈʌptɪŋ/
]
[ US /kɝˈəptɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kɝˈəptɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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harmful to the mind or morals
the vicious and degrading cult of violence
corrupt judges and their corrupting influence - that infects or taints
- seducing into corrupt practices
How To Use corrupting In A Sentence
- The angel Tyraeldiscovers that Baal has succeeded in corrupting the Arreat.
- The success of women's sport, and particularly intercollegiate basketball, brings with it other issues stemming from the corrupting effects of success and money.
- He needs consecrated men, to hurl them against the organized powers, and inbreaking hordes, that are desecrating the Sabbath, corrupting the Sketches of the Covenanters
- In the first place, this cult was said to exercise a corrupting influence perversive of piety. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
- The offence they were being punished for was having long hair and corrupting the nation 's young. Times, Sunday Times
- A conviction for corrupting judges on a grand scale would be more difficult to shrug off.
- The film is a statement against globalisation and its corrupting influence on the indigenous cultures and even native languages.
- Such societies may therefore employ spies or a priesthood to purify themselves of corrupting influences.
- Fears about the corrupting influence of commerce have led governments to intervene, but seldom with much effect. Times, Sunday Times
- corrupt judges and their corrupting influence