corruptness

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The well-argued piece frames the discussion of the NCAA’s corruptness through the lens of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari’s public perception.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2015

He is the only so-called political boss I have ever known at whom the finger of suspicion could not be pointed charging him with personal corruptness.

From Time Magazine Archive

One would like to know what 'unlawful or corrupt stuff' is, and whether the corruptness be physical through putridity, or merely metaphysical and created, like the unlawfulness by statute.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William

"Heavenly Father, that is worse still; such corruptness of mind!"

From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden

Government generally managed to control them, but only on condition of dispensing favours proportionate to the importance of the suitor and the corruptness of the occasion.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland