corrupt

Damon portrays a corrupt police officer in the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

I mean honestly, if it’s so bad and so corrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Critically, unlike bribery as traditionally defined in the criminal law, the prohibition on emoluments is not conditional on any corrupt bargain by the public official.

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

Young people were rebelling against a society they thought was violent, corrupt, and immoral.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The old adage is true: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

“Money spent very quickly on the military corrupts very quickly,” said Dennis Wilder, a senior fellow at Georgetown University and former U.S. intelligence officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“This is an act of pure cowardice for short-term gain that corrupts every journalistic value imaginable,” said USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Gabriel Kahn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Secrecy is a form of power, and power corrupts.

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

For over five decades, there have existed two types of movie lover: those who have been at least a little corrupted by Ken Russell’s 1971 iconoclasterpiece “The Devils” and those who haven’t seen it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

But federal prosecutors argued that Left corrupted the business model by scheming to trade quickly around his statements on social media, where he had a huge following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

What is the code of normalcy before it becomes corrupted by cancer’s coda?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“First Cow” is about the sweetness of friendship and French pastries in the wilds of Oregon during westward expansion; “The Weight” is about the corrupting forces of capitalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

But the judge said Bembridge had a public role and had failed to carry out his duties on behalf of the King for a corrupting motive.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

The same thing happened to those emperors who came to power from being private citizens by corrupting the soldiers.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli