(a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
(a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
(a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
(v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
(v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
(v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
(v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
(v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
(v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(3) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(4) We need to put our heads together, and get our act together to fight corruption.
(5) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(6) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(8) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(9) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
(10) The new police chiefs' first act was to refuse to investigate fresh corruption cases, one of which allegedly involves Erdoğan's son, Bilal .
(11) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.
(12) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
(13) The Department for International Development said all direct support to the Ugandan government had been cut in November after a corruption scandal, but a spokesman said the £97.9m in this year's budget would not be withheld.
(14) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(15) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(16) When people are better informed they are able to hold their authorities to account and see resources released for development instead of being lost to corruption.
(17) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(18) Quigley, who was appointed by Labor to run the NBN rollout, had to answer regular questions about his actions and responsibilities as a former senior executive when it was revealed there had been corruption at Alcatel Lucent in Costa Rica.
(19) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
(20) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
Deprave
Definition:
(n. t.) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
(n. t.) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
Example Sentences:
(1) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(2) The comments emerged in an article about last year’s Manchester Pride event, which was described in the Christian Soldiers newsletter as an “annual parade of depravity”.
(3) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
(4) The charges range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree “depraved-heart” murder.
(5) People have, of course, always committed depraved and evil acts, but simply to say “It has always happened” does not explain what is distinctive about contemporary terrorism.
(6) Shortly before 9pm on Wednesday, her voice cracking with emotion, the prime minister confirmed that what she called the “sick and depraved” attack had been carried out by a single assailant.
(7) The fighting has often slid into horror and depravity over the past 22 months.
(8) It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” Trump later pledged in the statement “to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good”.
(9) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(10) "[Eady] in effect ruled that it is perfectly acceptable for the multimillionaire head of a multibillion sport that is followed by countless young people to pay five women £2,500 to take part in acts of unimaginable sexual depravity with him," he said.
(11) I used to be so scared when going out in the deserted fields in the dark, because I could be attacked any time by depraved criminals,” she said.
(12) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
(13) After nearly a decade of supporting roles in mostly decent movies – you could also add to the list Up In The Air, Paul, Hancock, and State Of Play – Bateman has finally worked his way up to leading-man status – albeit as a straight-seeming guy who gets away with improbable and morally depraved acts.
(14) From the depraved dregs of humanity; the glorious blossoming of hope, a tangible act of togetherness; the salvation of pop.
(15) During this time 101 patients died (23.2%), with whom severeness of disease as well as the extent of social depravation could be identified as factors influencing mortality.
(16) "This is yet another example of the depraved behaviour of the Syrian regime, and why it must go.
(17) In contrast to premeditated homicide, a first-degree charge, depraved heart murder alleges the suspect actions were predicated by recklessness – and not caring about that recklessness – rather than intent.
(18) Bateman always comes across as the sanest, smartest, straightest guy in the movie even though his characters regularly commit acts of either moral depravity or wild improbability, or both.
(19) If the shooting down of the aeroplane was wild, reckless and tragic then the behaviour of the rebels in the aftermath has been depraved.
(20) As we’ve seen so tragically – from Brussels to Istanbul to Iraq, where Isil slaughtered children watching soccer – these depraved terrorists still have the ability to inflict horrific violence on the innocent, to the revulsion of the entire world,” he said.