corrupt
adjective
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.
corruptness
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a word derived from
corrupt.
Example Sentences
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The well-argued piece frames the discussion of the NCAA’s corruptness through the lens of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari’s public perception.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2015
He is the only so-called political boss I have ever known at whom the finger of suspicion could not be pointed charging him with personal corruptness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering?
From The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Did Mr. Hastings pretend to say that he destroyed the Provincial Councils for their corruptness or insufficiency, when he dissolved them?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
His egotism, his moral corruptness, were too close to the surface.
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg
