corruptness

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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

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

Boehmer has exhaustively gone into these charges, examining without flinching every asserted fact cited in evidence of Luther's moral corruptness, and has shown the purity of Luther as being above reproach.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)