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corruptibility

American  
[kuh-ruhpt-uh-bil-uh-tee] / kəˌrʌpt əˈbɪl ə ti /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being corruptible; an inclination toward corruption.


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The “Fargo” creator expanded a single Coen Brothers movie into a multi-season anthology about the corruptibility of American goodness.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2025

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

“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

It struck me like a great heresy against truth and purity; it seemed to lay bare before me the corruptibility and feebleness of poor human nature.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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