American English pronunciation
How to pronounce corrupt
IPA transcription: [kɚ'ʌpt]
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Verb
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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
“This judge can be bought”
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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”
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alter from the original
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place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
“sully someone's reputation”
Adjective
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lacking in integrity
“humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation”
“a corrupt and incompetent city government”
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not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Adjective
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containing errors or alterations
“a corrupt text”
“spoke a corrupted version of the language”
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touched by rot or decay
“tainted bacon”
“`corrupt' is archaic”
Usage examples
- May God not forgive anyone showing leniency toward the corrupt on Earth.
- He also fought against the corrupting influence of bootlegging and gangsters.
- Democratic reforms have proven to be moderately successful, though issues with corruption remain.
- Forced to resign, Jackson was later charged with corruption and imprisoned.
- Accordingly, he was keen on exposing political corruption in his journalism.
- It is said to be a corruption of an Indian word meaning Sioux river.
- However, poor governance and corruption has led to substantial illegal logging.
- To this day, this is the largest corruption case in French history.
- Not every saint, however, is expected to have an incorruptible corpse.
- He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old...