CORRUPT in a Sentence
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128 example sentences for CORRUPT, such as:
1. The official led a corrupt life.
2. She is awaiting trial on corruption charges.
3. He is trying to corrupt a tax official with money.
4. The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.
5. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
2. She is awaiting trial on corruption charges.
3. He is trying to corrupt a tax official with money.
4. The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.
5. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Meanings and Examples of CORRUPT
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corrupt
v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1 By means of them, the sufferer's conscience had been kept in an irritated state, the tendency of which was, not to cure by wholesome pain, but to disorganize and corrupt his spiritual being.
2 I know that James Steerforth,' she said, with her hand on her bosom, as if to prevent the storm that was raging there, from being loud, 'has a false, corrupt heart, and is a traitor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
3 To Sergey Ivanovitch the country meant on one hand rest from work, on the other a valuable antidote to the corrupt influences of town, which he took with satisfaction and a sense of its utility.
4 No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman.
5 She really was both innocent and corrupt, but a sweet and passive woman.
6 Most fortunate, therefore, was it for Rome that her kings grew corrupt soon, so as to be driven out before the taint of their corruption had reached the vitals of the city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII.
7 I think it neither out of place, nor inconsistent with what has been said above, to consider whether a free government existing in a corrupt city can be maintained, or, not existing, can be introduced.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
8 To these false opinions, founded on the pernicious example first set by the present corrupt age, we owe it, that no man thinks of departing from the methods which are in use.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
9 The first, that glory is to be sought by different methods in a corrupt city, and in one which still preserves its freedom.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII.
10 Should the ruling power be a republic, there is nothing so likely to corrupt its citizens and sow dissension among them, as having to control a divided city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII.
11 Every sin would then come forth from its lurking place, the most rebellious against the divine will and the most degrading to our poor corrupt nature, the tiniest imperfection and the most heinous atrocity.
12 They say that you corrupt every one with whom you become intimate, and that it is quite sufficient for you to enter a house for shame of some kind to follow after.
13 One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
14 The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men.
15 Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good action and to cause evil things to spring from it.
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
2 He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
3 Both companies are under investigation for corrupt practices.
4 The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.
5 The official led a corrupt life.
6 He is trying to corrupt a tax official with money.
7 The corrupt official bought off those who might expose him.
8 She wrote a book declaiming against our corrupt society.
9 The reform candidate kept to denounce the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.
10 It is just plain malicious software designed to corrupt your device or steal your information.
11 His administration now faces accusations of corruption.
12 The new district attorney has promised to fight police corruption.
13 The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society.
14 She is awaiting trial on corruption charges.
15 Corrupt officials always try to draw the curtain over their corruption.