corrupt

"You must be sure that your hands are clean. You can't be fighting corruption when your hands are soiled with corrupt practices," Olukoyede said.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

All this is symbolic of a man who is both pathetic and corrupt.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

The lawsuit, filed in New York by The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation, states that the scheme is "extraordinary, corrupt and unconstitutional."

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

He recruited his army from the foulest criminals ever vomited up by corrupt prison systems anywhere in the world.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

The very desire of it corrupts the heart.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

He said authorities had been working to recover images from the home surveillance system that "may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

"According to me and the majority of nations involved in this race, Canada corrupted everything that is meant to be fair and beautiful about our sport," she added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

It is shocking to read here of the coarsening and corrupting effect of such spectacles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

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

For example, Monsieur Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that people were basically generous and kind, and that disagreeable behavior was caused by a poor upbringing and the corrupting influence of civilization.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood