corruptible

Example Sentences

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"Corruptible people are disproportionately drawn to power, disproportionately good at wriggling their way into it and disproportionately likely to cling to it once they've got it," Klaas notes.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2023

Corruptible or Incorruptible," Mirande rejoined, with a sneer, "he is fallen!

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John

This weird hushed ant-hill with a thousand eyes; These midget periwigs; all those little blurs, Tier over tier, of faces, masks of flesh, Corruptible, hiding each its hopes and dreams, Its tragi-comic dreams.

From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred

These have vanished like a shadow, As a myth or phantom figure; And that body, once so lusty, Is a mouldering lump of matter, Corruptible, and vile, and filthy.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.