corruptibility
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You perceive Hale’s true colors immediately through those associations, just as you can see Ernest’s venality through DiCaprio’s immediately recognizable brand of boyish corruptibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
In a statement on Friday officials said the pair "are accused of giving false testimony before the so-called Ibiza committee of inquiry in the Austrian parliament... regarding the alleged corruptibility of his government".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
The awareness of human corruptibility and human limitations, as understood by Augustine, Kant, Sigmund Freud and Primo Levi, has been humankind's most potent check on evil.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2021
“Some mode of displacing an unfit magistrate is rendered indispensable by the fallibility of those who choose, as well as by the corruptibility of the man chosen,” the Virginia delegate George Mason said.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
That the frequency of elections proposed by this bill has a tendency to increase the power and consideration of the electors, not lessen corruptibility, I do most readily allow: so far it is desirable.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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