corrupt

"You must be sure that your hands are clean. You can't be fighting corruption when your hands are soiled with corrupt practices," Olukoyede said.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

"I only hope that after I step down, people across the country will say that 'he was an honest official, not a corrupt one' and I'll be very satisfied with that," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Pleasure is never quite sufficient justification for cooking something yourself; the viewer must also understand that the old version was artificial, addictive or imposed upon them by a corrupt system.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

It’s every bit as corrupt as it sounds!

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

A faint, corrupt perfume hung in the air.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

“This is an act of pure cowardice for short-term gain that corrupts every journalistic value imaginable,” said USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Gabriel Kahn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

We wanted to explore the idea, and particularly with Season 2, that power corrupts.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

But federal prosecutors argued that Left corrupted the business model by scheming to trade quickly around his statements on social media, where he had a huge following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

He’s corrupted from the inside by a system that has no regard for his humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

He said authorities had been working to recover images from the home surveillance system that "may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

"According to me and the majority of nations involved in this race, Canada corrupted everything that is meant to be fair and beautiful about our sport," she added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

"And you have to take care of yourself, son. Don't let this Harlem git you. I'm in New York but New York ain't in me, understand what I mean? Don't git corrupted."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Reasonable people will go in circles forever about whether specific cases are proof of the industry’s maturity or proof of its corrupting effect.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

As in ancient Athens, those most vocal about the need to protect children from corrupting influences insist that such drastic measures constitute a defense of rather than an attack on democratic values and social cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

But the judge said Bembridge had a public role and had failed to carry out his duties on behalf of the King for a corrupting motive.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

“He says that you are corrupting the party with your ideas,” I was told.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright