corrupt

They are a generation seen as easy to corrupt, but also expendable, by the kingpins who typically control them from prison or overseas.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

I mean honestly, if it’s so bad and so corrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

In short, he claims a right to engage in the precise form of corrupt self-enrichment that has since the 14th century been the quintessential impeachable offense.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Betancourt’s legal problems stemmed from his role in troubled Venezuelan energy projects during the corrupt rule of former President Hugo Chávez.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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

Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

This strain of rationalization feels familiar because it is universal: It’s how power corrupts and how the powerful sleep at night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

While the word has been co-opted and corrupted by vision-board romantics and TikTok gurus, it’s still the key to making what we want happen.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Dive into this short story about humans’ first contact with an alien who’s been corrupted by some very modern vices.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

But federal prosecutors argued that Left corrupted the business model by scheming to trade quickly around his statements on social media, where he had a huge following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

One hundred and twenty sunrises, one hundred and twenty more times he has to drag his corrupted body out of a bed and button it into a uniform.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

Democracies have always worried about dangerous ideas corrupting the young.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

When troublemaker Arlene moves in across the street to live with her father, Maria falls helplessly under her corrupting influence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Steve Eisman was odd in his conviction that the leveraging of middle-class America was a corrupt and corrupting event, and that the subprime mortgage market in particular was an engine of exploitation and, ultimately, destruction.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis