corrupt

It’s every bit as corrupt as it sounds!

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

All I could think was that some lucky corrupt cop, like our neighbor, was going to benefit from my labor, and I’d be broke for the rest of my life.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Memorable cinematic roles have included a corrupt police officer in the Harrison Ford thriller "Witness" and a comedy turn in Wes Anderson's eccentric "The Royal Tenenbaums," opposite Gene Hackman.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

He and Jamie spent a surprising amount of their time and energy thinking up ways to attack what they viewed as a deeply corrupt financial system.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The unseemly representation of necessary, lethal battle as some sort of videogame corrupts our national culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The old adage is true: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

His relationship with his Jewish neighbors, the Brodskys, grows closer as Nazi power corrupts France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Secrecy is a form of power, and power corrupts.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

File names were usually corrupted, so Hannah Oh rarely knew the title, singer or release date.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Then things start to get more corrupted, and money plays a huge role ... as it always has throughout human history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

"According to me and the majority of nations involved in this race, Canada corrupted everything that is meant to be fair and beautiful about our sport," she added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

In fact, the creature possesses an instinctive benevolence, which is corrupted by rejection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

“That we tour London’s loops and hope to find someone still at home? And what would you say the odds are that the corrupted, who are looking for us, would leave all those loops unguarded?”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Reasonable people will go in circles forever about whether specific cases are proof of the industry’s maturity or proof of its corrupting effect.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

The indictment accused him of impiety and added, “Socrates is…also guilty of corrupting the youth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

But the judge said Bembridge had a public role and had failed to carry out his duties on behalf of the King for a corrupting motive.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

Instead, Jerry takes every shortcut he can without considering the ethical fine print, aligning himself with Carl and Gaear and corrupting his soul in the process.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

For example, Monsieur Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that people were basically generous and kind, and that disagreeable behavior was caused by a poor upbringing and the corrupting influence of civilization.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood