as in corrupt
open to improper influence and especially bribery
there's a rumor that that judge is eminently corruptible
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Recent Examples of corruptible
From fragmented records to corruptible datasets and the general noise across social media, agentic systems are facing a trust and truth crisis at the most fundamental level.
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Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Iran prefers weak allies over strong ones, and corrupt and corruptible governments over ones that respond to their citizens’ needs.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Iran prefers weak allies over strong ones, and corrupt and corruptible governments over ones that respond to their citizens’ needs.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corruptible
Adjective
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Which makes Shelley Joseph today’s poster gal for the corrupt double standards in the Massachusetts legal system.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Trump is running the most brazenly corrupt administration in modern history.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Visual elements seem corrupted.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Two decades later, the past reawakens when an email from the missing girl triggers the same sinister pop-up, pulling her childhood friends into a corrupted corner of the internet—and into the heart of Japan’s most chilling digital myth.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Even though a lot of what happens in the book borders on the ridiculous because of the behavior of narcissistic selfish venal individuals.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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One argued that what Janis took to be a herd mentality might just as well be seen as deliberate, venal compliance.—
David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The checklist for cleaning the kitchen was probably just washing dirty dishes, wiping down countertops, and mopping the floors.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty.—
Shagun Khare,
Martha Stewart,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Willms plans to call the Bureau of Land Management — the agency that oversees these parcels of federal land — to report the crooked stake.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
7 Jan. 2026
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Begin by removing any suckers at the base of the tree, side shoots on the trunk, crossing or crooked branches, dead or damaged branches, those that are growing inward, and crowded branches.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The mercenary group for years propped up militant groups and authoritarian regimes in the Sahel in exchange for mineral resources — including huge concessions in Sudan’s gold mining industry.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Reuters reported in April 2019 that Prince had been shopping a plan to topple the Maduro regime using mercenary soldiers.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Amazon has become the leading self-publishing platform with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), software that allows an user to upload their manuscript and create purchasable e-books and paperbacks.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, the Home Buyer Scarcity Index, which measures how crunched an area is for purchasable homes, has spiked.—
Nigel Chiwaya,
NBC news,
28 Aug. 2025
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