corrupt

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

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Buchanan, 72, had been incarcerated since 2004 for kidnapping a convict who was harassing a corrupt prison guard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Through his phone calls, they learned of a corrupt correctional officer at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The departures of these women isn’t because none of the administration’s men have been implicated in misconduct or corrupt dealings.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

The unseemly representation of necessary, lethal battle as some sort of videogame corrupts our national culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

“If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 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

Secrecy is a form of power, and power corrupts.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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

These scenes take place in Bohemia, which represents the moral and spiritual opposite of Sicilia; it’s a place where joyful anarchy and freedom replace the oppressive and destructive rigidities of the corrupted Sicilia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"And you have to take care of yourself, son. Don't let this Harlem git you. I'm in New York but New York ain't in me, understand what I mean? Don't git corrupted."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

To Old Hickory, the bank was unconstitutional, corrupt and, with respect to American liberty and character, corrupting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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

I know what she is thinking: of upright men in homburg hats, of black silk umbrellas and the corrupting rains of northern latitudes.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García