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corruptness

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

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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

  • When it saw the Taliban’s rapid rise to prominence in the war against the Afghan government, ISIS declared that the takeover was the result of a corrupt conspiracy between the United States and the Taliban.

  • In Vietnam we sided with a corrupt post-colonial government dominated by minority Catholics in a majority Buddhist nation.

  • In each case, the United States installed a corrupt, pro-Western regime before abandoning its support when the cost was deemed to outweigh the benefit.

  • He also once again grumbled that the “corrupt media” had taken his previous comments out of context.

  • With Bulgaria ranked as the EU’s most corrupt country, no activity can really be ruled out.

  • These young adults have voluntarily checked out of a political system they consider corrupt and dysfunctional.

  • Cuba, already corrupt, will have to avoid becoming even more so when American investment pours in.

  • So, is Rampal really that different from a corrupt, charismatic megachurch leader felled by scandal?

  • That suggestion turns absurd when you consider the long list of corrupt Democrat politicians Lynch has sent to prison.

  • This corrupt bargain results in a decade-long stasis, with far-reaching implications.

  • He will tell you that evil communications corrupt good manners, and pitch defiles.

  • It is tolerably certain that this is a corrupt form of the passage, and only makes the matter darker.

  • The administration had been too corrupt, the exactions too heavy to be longer borne, when reform appeared to be within reach.

  • Their speech is a dialect called Chabucano—a mixture of very corrupt Spanish and native tongues.

  • And the degraded society, like the robe which once covered the living body, but is afterwards cast off, is faded and corrupt.