incorruptible

Example Sentences

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By 2014, she says, “the abstemious, incorruptible leader had become a louche, boorish one.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The daughter of former dictator Park Chung-hee, Park Geun-hye was the first woman president of South Korea and had presented herself as incorruptible.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

"Now it's a different Vijay. His on-screen persona as incorruptible, restrained, morally upright, mirrored the ethical imagination of Dravidian politics, a cinematic grammar Tamil audiences recognise instinctively," says Chakravarthy.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

One critic wished that Vogt had focused “more on the harmless side of the children’s powers,” an indication of how strong the desire is to affirm childhood as a time of incorruptible purity.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

The legs had been kicked away and used to break the windows, and were lying outside, softly crumbling into the earth among the nettles and the incorruptible shards of glass.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan