corruptness
Example Sentences
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The well-argued piece frames the discussion of the NCAA’s corruptness through the lens of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari’s public perception.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2015
He is the only so-called political boss I have ever known at whom the finger of suspicion could not be pointed charging him with personal corruptness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every political code, either from a defect of its constitution, or from the corruptness of those who are entrusted to execute it, will be found less perfect in practice than speculation had promised itself.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
One would like to know what 'unlawful or corrupt stuff' is, and whether the corruptness be physical through putridity, or merely metaphysical and created, like the unlawfulness by statute.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William
Emily had never known the phase of faith which finds comfort in the confession of native corruptness, nor did the desolation of her life guide her into that orthodox form of pessimism.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
