corrupt

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

It does not matter for emoluments purposes that there is no corrupt intention on either side.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

If something that once seemed magical could be turned into something so corrupt in a comparably short time, its malevolent potential was a feature from the beginning, not a bug.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

The screenwriter’s contributions, Wasson notes, were key to Capra’s reputation for plots pitting the virtuous little guy against the corrupt system, with “the everyday David trouncing the corporate Goliath.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

But when it was put into practice, particularly when it was placed in the hands of corrupt leaders, it became a much different system from that which was originally espoused.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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 Boys” counters that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then superpower corrupts superbly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

The movie is a lark, not a hard-hitting statement about how mass media corrupts the soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

The very desire of it corrupts the heart.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Winter said: "That tells you the extent to which public opinion has ... corrupted."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

For over five decades, there have existed two types of movie lover: those who have been at least a little corrupted by Ken Russell’s 1971 iconoclasterpiece “The Devils” and those who haven’t seen it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

“Point is,” he said, “if corrupted get rest of ymbrynes, they become unstoppable.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

The accessibility and pervasiveness of betting platforms makes the possibility of corrupting jurors a real risk, said University of Chicago law professor M. Todd Henderson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Documentarian Alex Gibney is no stranger to dissections of corrupting power — from his feature dives into Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Scientology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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