incorruptible

[ in-kuh-ruhp-tuh-buhl ]

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adjective

not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
that cannot be perverted or bribed: incorruptible by money.

that will not dissolve, disintegrate, decay, etc.: an incorruptible metal.

Origin of incorruptible

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Late Latin word incorruptibilis.See in-³, corruptible

Other words for incorruptible

1	upright, righteous, unbribable

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Other words from incorruptible

in·cor·rupt·i·bil·i·ty, in·cor·rupt·i·ble·ness, noun
in·cor·rupt·i·bly, adverb

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How to use incorruptible in a sentence

But the Mexican marines who grabbed him back in February were unafraid and incorruptible.
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But he never stopped speaking his mind, and to the people he always remained an incorruptible hero.
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MORE The incorruptible Official China NeedsBy Huang Hung Wu Yi is tiny but powerful.
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Black leaders thought that Farrakhan spoke most powerfully to their ethnic base and was even seen by that base as incorruptible.
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This is an honest town, an incorruptible town, and I know I can trust it without fear.
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She desired nothing further than her present surrender to the incorruptible, inassailable passion of service.
The Creators | May Sinclair
As it was, he owned that her incorruptible simplicity preserved her, even at her worst, from being really dreadful.
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Marriage had not abridged his immeasurable remoteness, nor touched his incorruptible refinement.
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The Egyptian sought in vain to make the mortal body incorruptible by embalming it.
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British Dictionary definitions for incorruptible

incorruptible

/ (ˌɪnkəˈrʌptəbəl) /

adjective

incapable of being corrupted; honest; just
not subject to decay or decomposition

Derived forms of incorruptible

incorruptibility or incorruptibleness, noun
incorruptibly, adverb

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