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“You truly think that this jury, but for the fact that your client was the corruptor, would not have imposed the death penalty,” Scalia asked Frederick Liu, attorney for Reginald Carr.

From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2015

Now she was the subject of many da-zi-bao calling her an opportunist, a black executioner, a corruptor of the young.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

For this he was censured in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, who called him the corruptor of the Roman army.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.”

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

He was doubly detestable, in that he was the corruptor and worst specimen of the editorial calling in Europe and in America.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various