corrupt
adjective
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.
will corrupt
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future tenseof corrupt.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“Your soul is pure, but every second in this place will corrupt it,” Zizo cryptically warns him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Besides, parents who fear that exposure to controversial ideas or images will corrupt their youngsters are perhaps demonstrating, as the notorious Mr. Wilde observed, their own shame.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
They agonize that the alliance with power will corrupt them, and that, as they are recognized, accepted and used, they will cease being creative, critical and useful.
From Time Magazine Archive
The O.C.'s outsider premise is both older and more radical: when a poor kid in trouble moves to a pampered enclave, who will corrupt whom?
From Time Magazine Archive
Purity of purpose and sincerity of conduct must preserve the citizen from the taint of evil, or he will become corrupt, and if he do not disgust, will corrupt others.
From The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. by Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles)
