corruptive
Example Sentences
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"No child should be targeted under 16 for social media - it is addictive, it is corruptive, it is corrosive and it's predatory."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
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
These presently take wings, and fly away, so that, falling into the corruptive and destructive fashions of the times, their parents have only been heaping up riches; not knowing who were to gather them.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
