(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.
Unspoilt
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If you take a photo of the view from a bedroom window, but cannot include the rubbish dump, don't say 'panoramic views' or 'unspoilt countryside'."
(2) So think twice before booking that flight (unless you're going for its other assets – its chilled-out beach towns , chic resorts , and unspoilt interior .
(3) Our isolation from industrial centres has hindered our development in the past, but we are turning this to our advantage through responsible tourism for discerning tourists who value unspoilt and distant islands.
(4) Its cultural attractions and unspoilt natural beauty makes it a popular tourist destination .
(5) Hatchling survival is also very low as the species is so sensitive and there are not enough unspoilt water bodies where juvenile crocodiles can mature safely.
(6) Greenpeace has warned that if Cairn strikes oil or gas, it will provoke an "oil rush" in the vulnerable and unspoilt waters of the Arctic.
(7) The respected scholar recently warned against trying to lure Wayne Rooney to the big city for fear that all the cars, buildings and computation machines, or "computers" as they're being called, could overwhelm the Mowgli-like 27-year-old, who has spent all of his life up to now roaming free in the unspoilt savannahs of remotest Liverpool and Manchester.
(8) For more unspoilt bathing you're better off heading on to isolated Armenopetra, where two pebble beaches split the crystal clear waters.
(9) In Asturias you can find breathtaking mountain scenery only a few miles from beautiful, unspoilt stretches of beach.
(10) • Find it on Google Maps 4 Pozze Smeraldine, Dolomites Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Michele Tameni In the Dolomiti Friulane natural park , down in the Cellina valley on the way to the village of Barci are many wild, unspoilt pools and gorges.
(11) "I shall be having a long talk with our MP as soon as he's back here," said Tory district councillor Steve Wilkinson, who calls the route through Cheshire's Tatton constituency "absolutely devastating to a beautiful place where people want to live in unspoilt peace and quiet."
(12) Skopelos Town Thea Home Hotel Where to stay: Thea Home Hotel Skopelos Town is perhaps the most attractive and unspoilt of all the harbour towns of the Sporades, and this simple hotel lies at the heart of it.
(13) Tucked among the sand dunes of this unspoilt stretch of sand, the "Cloud Bar" doesn't serve alcohol but it does have Cloud Menus, which identify different formations, mirrors that can be swivelled to reflect different parts of the sky and cloud-viewing seats, on which visitors can recline and enjoy the view.
(14) This tranquil island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Cancún, is fringed with unspoilt white sand beaches and is fabulous for snorkelling and diving.
(15) Photograph: Alamy La Balagne, Corsica The region of La Balagne, northern Corsica, is crisscrossed with walking paths, ranging from the sedate to those requiring crampons.The mountains and valleys are wild, unspoilt and crowd-free, scattered with fig, olive and chestnut trees and fragrant maquis.
(16) For sale” signs staked in the ground next to idyllic meadows reminded us that this sort of unspoilt beauty won’t last forever.
(17) "Scotland's reputation as a beautiful, unspoilt country is being destroyed as massive industrial-scale wind turbines sprout from the hillsides.
(18) His slick, unashamedly populist, Eurosceptic but largely uncontroversial campaign, promising to “put Austria first” with the slogan “Unspoilt, honest, good”, saw him collect 35% of the first-round vote in the presidential elections, his party’s best national score since its formation in 1956.
(19) He was a genuinely nice man, largely unspoilt by fame, though latterly a bit miffed that he was not hired more often, not just for old times' sake but because he was actually worth it.
(20) Although the sea can be cold, even in the warmest months, the islands are incredibly unspoilt by mass tourism or development of any kind.