What's the difference between corrupt and dishonest?

Corrupt


Definition:

  • (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.

Dishonest


Definition:

  • (a.) Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  • (a.) Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured.
  • (a.) Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
  • (a.) Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
  • (v. t.) To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
  • (3) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (4) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
  • (5) Student and faculty definitions of dishonest behavior were compared, and the incidence of dishonest behavior and the experiences of faculty in recognizing and disciplining students for academic misconduct were analyzed.
  • (6) The top eight adjectives they chose were: envious, stiff, industrious, nature loving, quiet, honest, dishonest, xenophobic.
  • (7) Explaining why they continue to increase the size of the UN consolidated appeal each year, despite not acheiving full funding year-on-year, Larke said: “We base our ask on the real needs we assess, not on the money we expect to get - to do so the other way round would be dishonest.
  • (8) Obama claimed budgets under Bush involved "dishonest accounting" because they had not included the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but his does.
  • (9) The QC stated in his decision allowing that appeal: “If the reasoned ruling of the court in Cagliari discloses the conduct of Mr Cellino was such it would reasonably be considered to be dishonest, he would be [disqualified].” The League applied to the court in Cagliari for those written reasons, and once it had received them its board took the view the conviction did constitute a dishonest act and disqualified Cellino.
  • (10) A normal American could have his home taken away from him due to a dishonest mortgage and no one in Washington blinked – but when a banker calls Treasury in a panic about losing out on some debt, a Swat team of Washington policymakers rushes to the scene.
  • (11) For anyone to say it doesn't have an effect is dishonest."
  • (12) Secondly, and potentially more damaging to News International, Hunt is to ask whether the assurances given by Murdoch about the editorial independence of Sky News need to be viewed in a new light given that senior NI figures appear to have been dishonest in their answers to a parliamentary select committee, the police and the Press Complaints Commission, as well as to the wider public.
  • (13) Apparently Trump wasn’t aware of the fantastical but common Republican refrain that while abortion should be illegal, women themselves shouldn’t be punished – a diplomatic but wholly dishonest response in a country where women have already been jailed for ending their pregnancies .
  • (14) It is, if I can reiterate, a deeply dishonest politics when it comes to pretending that your opponents believe something they don't … I've been told she was speaking in relation to lower-income families.
  • (15) The chamber spent a considerable period of time investigating the circumstances of a substantial number of individuals whose evidence was, at least in part, inaccurate or dishonest".
  • (16) The comic, author and actor was a guest on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he said the "dishonest scandal" was created by "privately owned media with a pre-existing agenda [ie the Daily Mail] to attack the BBC".
  • (17) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (18) It added that the BCA accepted Singh's previous assertion that he had never intended to suggest it had been dishonest "which goes some way to vindicating its position".
  • (19) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
  • (20) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.