corrupt
adjective
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.
were 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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Speaking to the BBC, Sir Mark Rowley said he would be "ruthless in rooting out officers who were corrupting the force's integrity".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022
As rap has become synonymous with pop music, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when the art form was demonized by some who claimed that street-tough rappers were corrupting the nation’s youth.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2021
In 1994, I had co-founded a publishing company called CenterWatch that covered the business aspects of the “clinical trials industry,” and I soon became interested in writing about how financial interests were corrupting drug trials.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2020
In 2017, a lot of writers decided to briefly panic about whether fidget spinners were corrupting the youth.
From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2019
They cannot say they were corrupting, for there was no commandment of God which those washings did corrupt or destroy, except that commandment which forbiddeth men's additions.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
