corrupt
adjective
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.
was corrupting
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past progressiveof corrupt.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She was expected to mount a defense — “What did I think of the commenters telling me I was corrupting America’s youth?” — but she did not know what she had done wrong.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
There were familiar disputes about whether De Quincey was corrupting the young, but the main intoxicant on display was his prose, which derived its power from being written in the grip of its subject.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
But as an independent writer, I’ve always thought playing those sorts of games was corrupting.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
He wasn't in thrall to wealth, but making a study of how it was corrupting the country he loved.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
What was troublous in them we clarified; what was corrupting we corrected; what was local we generalized; what was excessive we brought down to the proportions of mankind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
