corruptible

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for corruptible
Adjective
  • Rosamund Pike adds her name to the cast list, starring as a diamond seller whose family launders their profits through corrupt back-channels.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Countless cases have shown how these schemes have granted safe haven to corrupt actors from around the world and other suspicious individuals in the EU.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The anti-hero of his book is Sammy Glick, a venal go-getter who leapfrogs from copy boy to agent to producer by stealing credit and backstabbing friends.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
  • They are easily shot down by venal lobbyists, conformist consultants, cynical national diplomats, and, in a deliciously Machiavellian scene, a suave official sitting atop the European Commission.
    Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • They were bullied, beaten, humiliated, tortured and shot, with productive laborers crammed on top of one another in the dirty stone barracks—separately from the Jewish prisoners, whose numbers grew ever larger.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • Coal plants are also the dirtiest fossil fuel in terms of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • But that jubilation quickly turns into a night of violence when Coop is beaten within an inch of his life by two guys hired by a crooked art gallery owner who put overly aggressive moves on his partner in crime Elena (Aimee Carrero).
    Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 9 May 2025
  • In the new season’s third episode, Charlie helps Beatrix solve the murder of her husband Jeffrey (Richard Kind) by crooked FBI agent Danny (John Mulaney), and in return, Beatrix agrees to call off the hit.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • And how to be optimally developmental and transactional in an increasingly mercenary environment.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The prominent credit-card swiper offers 15 minutes for the high price of $15, and the show follows up on the Gemstones’ mercenary shamelessness later when someone working the telethon phone bank asks for a donor’s routing number.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Corruptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corruptible. Accessed 14 May. 2025.

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