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corruptly

/kuh-ruhpt/US // kəˈrʌpt //UK // (kəˈrʌpt) //

腐败地,腐败性地,贪污地,腐败

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
    • : debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
    • : made inferior by errors or alterations: Scholars compared the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript with a more reliable Greek translation.
    • : infected; tainted.
    • : Archaic. decayed; putrid.
    • : Computers. relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors: If the corrupt file won’t open, restore a previous save.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.
    • : to lower morally; pervert: to corrupt youth.
    • : to alter for the worse; debase.
    • : to mar; spoil.
    • : to infect; taint.
    • : Archaic. to make putrid or putrescent.
    • : Computers. to introduce errors in when saving, transmitting, or retrieving it: I downloaded some free modifications that corrupted the core program, so I can’t open it until I uninstall and reinstall the original version.
    • : English Law. to subject to corruption of blood.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become corrupt.

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Examples

  • In the 1890s, Congress cracked down on the last state-chartered lottery — the notoriously corrupt Louisiana State Lottery Company — and a number of states banned betting on horse racing, one of the only forms of wagering that remained legal.

  • From there he goes on to speak of all the corrupt things done by Justinian and Theodora, as well as the many figures of their court.

  • FireEye soon discovered the attackers had gained access through corrupted updates to the SolarWinds Orion network-monitoring software that it used.

  • When we say someone who steals, someone who is corrupt, is disgusting, that’s a little different from saying that someone who, say, burns the American flag is disgusting.

  • Kleptocrats and corrupt foreign officials did not need secret bank accounts in Switzerland.

  • The colored Creoles, who are generally uneducated, speak the Spanish language much more corruptly than the whites.

  • Treste, the trefoil leaf, or clover-grass (corruptly called Clubs) alludes to the husbandmen and peasants.

  • The metropolis of the kingdom is called Bagou, corruptly called Pegu, which name is likewise given to the kingdom.

  • It is so called by the French, because it comes to them from Japan, which they corruptly pronounce Sapan.

  • No one could have been more discreet, more corruptly sagacious, more sunnily amiable, than this singular woman.