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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Other Word Forms

• incorruptibility noun
• noncorruptibility noun

Example Sentences

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

Therefore the greatness of our power, and the great and just opinion of our corruptibility and our corruption, render it necessary to fix some bound, to plant some landmark, which we are never to exceed.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund