uncorrupted
Britishadjective
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not having been corrupted
you're touchingly uncorrupted by power
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not contaminated
food that is uncorrupted by chemicals
Example Sentences
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"We wanted to be completely uncorrupted and have a laugh... And as soon as the chains were off, of course there were so many ideas."
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023
Clean and uncorrupted, he’s not that different from a hero out of Robert A. Heinlein.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
This seemed to me to be the most dignified form of fandom, a birthright uncorrupted by capital, or by the fact of winning or losing at all.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022
But the idea that anyone who walked its halls was pure evil is as blinkered as the KGB’s own idea of itself as the one uncorrupted, “professional” institution in late Soviet life.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017
To become a climber was to join a self-contained, rabidly idealistic society, largely unnoticed and surprisingly uncorrupted by the world at large.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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