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

Did Mr. Hastings pretend to say that he destroyed the Provincial Councils for their corruptness or insufficiency, when he dissolved them?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Government generally managed to control them, but only on condition of dispensing favours proportionate to the importance of the suitor and the corruptness of the occasion.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

Is this innate corruptness which brings him so easily to the bait, or is it the stinging smart of injustice from which he may well be suffering?

From The Double Traitor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)