corruptly

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The first part makes it a crime to corruptly alter, destroy or conceal evidence to frustrate official proceedings.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2024

“He was not living the life of an exiled corrupt Latin American leader rich with the spoils of monies corruptly earned,” his attorneys wrote in a pre-sentencing memo seeking just six years behind bars.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024

The Macpherson inquiry said it had seen nothing to suggest he was corruptly involved in trying to hold back the murder investigation.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023

Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries, wanted to revoke a sovereign guarantee on a loan it alleges was corruptly procured and secure compensation for other alleged wrongdoing.

From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2023

The vendetta is also represented as a kind of rude justice, to which the people were driven in the long ages of misrule during which law was in abeyance or corruptly administered.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas