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corrupt English

Meaning corrupt meaning

What does corrupt mean?
Definitions in simple English

corrupt Adjective

— If someone is corrupt, they are weak in morals; it is depraved or perverted. The Government here is corrupt, so we'll move to escape them. — If something is corrupt, it is not correct; it is with lots of errors in it. The text of the manuscript is corrupt. It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open. — If someone or something is corrupt, it is not pure; it is spoiled or tainted. Prisoners of war are sometimes fed corrupt food.

corrupt Verb

— If you corrupt something or someone, you make them corrupt; you change them from good to bad. Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

corrupt

— adjective lacking in integrity humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation a corrupt and incompetent city government — verb (= subvert, debauch) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality debauch the young people with wine and women Socrates was accused of corrupting young men Do school counselors subvert young children? corrupt the morals — adjective (= corrupted) containing errors or alterations a corrupt text spoke a corrupted version of the language — adjective (= tainted) touched by rot or decay tainted bacon 'corrupt' is archaic — verb alter from the original — adjective (= crooked) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive — verb (= buy) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence This judge can be bought — verb (= sully) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon sully someone's reputation

Synonyms corrupt synonyms

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corrupt English » English

spoil taint bribe depraved deprave ruin pervert defile bad venal degenerate debauch contaminate vitiate pollute immoral debase corrupted tainted dishonest crooked seduce rotten rot demoralize damage cheat wicked subvert spoilt putrid putrefy profane mar grease one’s palms dishonor debauched corruption buy broken vicious vendible swindle sully spoiled sinful make dirty evil degrade deface

Topics corrupt topics

What do people use corrupt to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Bad, immoral
Person Life Die

Corpse
Social behavior Behavior Honest

Dishonest
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Bribe
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage

Conjugation corrupt conjugation

How do you conjugate corrupt?

corrupt · verb

Examples corrupt examples

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Simple sentences

The party in power is corrupt, but the opposition is little better.
Down with corrupt politicians!
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The file is corrupt.
That organization is corrupt to the core.
These police officers are corrupt.
This government is corrupt.
The corrupt government officials fled the country.
These politicians are corrupt.
Many people believe that our country's politicians are corrupt.
Down with corrupt politicians.
The Algerian government was too corrupt to be effective.

Movie subtitles

What brings you to our corrupt Babylon?
Fletcher Christian corrupted them. Yes, but what made them so easy to corrupt?
To cut off their source of revenue and discharge corrupt officials.
They should be the most prosperous in the state, instead of which they're the most corrupt.
I'm gonna force the law, corrupt or not to bring to the light of day this filthy affair.
Are you implying that my commanding officer is corrupt?
There's something corrupt going on around my pants. and I just can't seem to locate it.
I'm only a poor, corrupt official.
You insinuating the judges are corrupt?
It's vile, evil, corrupt, decadent.
They're alike only in having the same corrupt blood.
I'd been. The dirtiest, most corrupt political group in our history.
Whom he couldn't corrupt, he terrified or murdered.
It was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as the suave but corrupt senator in Frank Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
To admit professors from Spain and Italy might corrupt the purity of our teaching.
We're an entirely corrupt society.
I'm gonna force the law, corrupt or not.. tobringto thelightofday this filthy affair.
But that government is now vile and corrupt.
You told me of them. Women who, in jealousy or anger or out of their own corrupt passions can change into great cats, like panthers.
You corrupt my people, but I forgive you.
They alike? They're alike only in having the same corrupt blood.
You poor corrupt creatures.
I was bright and corrupt.
He's trying to corrupt public officials.
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
Women who, in jealousy or anger or out of their own corrupt passions. can change into great cats, like panthers.
Vorvolaka. Vorvolaka, born of evil. sinful and corrupt. your hands are bloody with violence. your mouth bitter with the taste of sin and corruption.
Leave all that is ugly and tarnished and corrupt forever.
It's not anything strange that there are corrupt officers in police departments.
I think he's corrupt, rotten, no good.
We had no idea. We were in the financial crisis, bankruptcy, political turmoil, corrupt liberalism.
A rather corrupt one, I'd say.
I'd rather be corrupt, unless you happen to love children.
You have discovered that men are vulgar and evil, the corrupt and the corrupted.
Will you be writing an article about the stupid and corrupt aristocracy?

News and current affairs

Rather, it increases the prospects of corrupt leakage that may allow terrorist groups access to nuclear weapons.
The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga: corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.
It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed legitimacy to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.
Like swine flu, crony capitalism has migrated from corrupt Third World countries to America, once the citadel of sound public and private governance.
He preferred to confront corrupt institutions one at a time as he consolidated his rule.
But crime would not be as powerful as it is, and the police and judiciary would not be as corrupt, if Serbia's economy were in better shape.
When Russia faced its worst crisis, aid was given to the corrupt Yeltsin regime.
If this had been done, Russians would have fondly remembered receiving cash aid from the international community rather than blaming it for transferring funds to corrupt leaders.
It also tends to be the least corrupt of institutions in regions where that is a problem.
Last year the government put its finances in order by cutting wasteful and corrupt expenditures, such as enterprise subsidies.
Those who blame the IMF see the problem as self-inflicted through profligate and corrupt spending by Argentina.
But, sadly, the treaty will only entrench postcommunism's corrupt and criminal business practices, not increase trade or prosperity.
The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.
Afghanistan's often corrupt and incompetent government undermines counter-insurgency efforts there.
The message from Tunisia, at least so far, is clear: corrupt and authoritarian regimes, beware: unless you reform deeply and quickly, your days are numbered.
One such opportunity was missed in the early 1990's. When Russia faced its worst crisis, aid was given to the corrupt Yeltsin regime.
Her father was a respected president; yet she could well be remembered as one of the country's most corrupt.
Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.
He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay's land.

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