Example Sentences

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As president, Buhari made a virtue of his "incorruptibility", declaring his relatively modest wealth and saying he had "spurned several past opportunities" to enrich himself.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

A man once celebrated for his rectitude and incorruptibility spewed one lie after another.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

If he is guilty of anything, they say, it may be a sort of moral hubris, a desire to put his rectitude and incorruptibility on public display.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2016

It's not that all of them are outside the political mainstream; it's that the voters – many of them anyway – look at them as projecting an aura of incorruptibility.

From US News • Nov. 4, 2015

We must strive for incorruptibility, and must assess our motives on a daily basis.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman