corrupt

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"I didn't become a police officer to serve a corrupt system. To help cover things up."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

Many of the country’s 93 million people were deeply dissatisfied with the sclerotic and often corrupt rule that characterized the 36-plus-year reign of his father.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

He recruited his army from the foulest criminals ever vomited up by corrupt prison systems anywhere in the world.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer