corruptly
腐败地,腐败性地,贪污地,腐败
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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.
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- : 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.