corruptive

Example Sentences

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"We're not talking about being funded by corruptive billionaires, but there are people who are with us and who would like a change."

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

Sheridan’s dramas present patriarchal power as protective – a sea change from the Platinum Era prestige themes of power as corruptive.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

But as “The Last of Us” reminds us again and again, with authority comes power, which can be a corruptive force when wielded with too much self-righteousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025

"We call this corruptive activity," Hanne Aho, the chairwoman of the Union of Journalists in Finland, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2023

That strange person, Cuthbert Grandison—or, as he was generally termed, Cubby Grindstane, by the corruptive ingenuity of his neighbours—occupied a small mud cottage near the centre of the village we have mentioned.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander