corrupt
Example Sentences
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Transparency International has ranked Hungary the most corrupt country in the EU for the past four years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
In 2024, Moore was banned from the floor of the Georgia state house after he denounced the chamber's late Republican speaker, David Ralston, as "corrupt" during a memorial service.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Instead, it is wholly contingent and circumstantial, defined by what serves his own self-interest and corrupt needs and wants at any given moment.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026
Many of the country’s 93 million people were deeply dissatisfied with the sclerotic and often corrupt rule that characterized the 36-plus-year reign of his father.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
Arm could sense the spirit: an old, corrupt warthog grown fat on the flesh of its young.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
