corrupt

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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

"So it's not surprising there are people who will make mistakes or who are corrupt," says Professor Kerry Brown of King's College London.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 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

The soldiers’ job was to reinstate the country’s democratically elected government, in the process stripping power from the junta—a government composed of military leaders—whose corrupt and cruel reign had gone on for three years.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French