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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Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General, resigned -- resigned rather than carry out the corrupt orders of the president.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Oct. 2025
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Eric Adams, who started his career as a transit cop, was undone in part by his dealings with corrupt old friends from the department.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Backups can become corrupted over time and be useless if this happens.—
Chongwei Chen,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Signalis’s radio-receiver module is reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid’s radio conversations, and players will need to utilize it to unlock safes and fight against corrupted enemies.—
George Yang,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Berger and Nina Gold cast Tilda Swinton as Cynthia Blithe, the private investigator who tracks him, laser like, to China, with Fala Chen playing Dao Ming, the savvy hostess who sees something behind Doyle’s desperate tactics, and Alex Jennings as an expat of the most venal variety.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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And the result at the end of the day is a truly grotesque dirty water container, which does feel like a job well done.—
Loz Blain
October 14,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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Trump is suing his Wall Street Journal for reporting about his dirty doodle to Jeffrey Epstein.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Barry Cooper, the colorful former police officer turned scourge of crooked cops, couldn’t attend the screening of a new film about him at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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Instead of squandering a potential big inning, the Cubs had put up a crooked number.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That sounds a lot like Cassian Andor, the mercenary orphan turned galactic hero at the heart of two seasons of Andor on Disney+.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
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Black and his co-writers soften the cold mercenary side of Parker by giving him something of a moral compass, which prompts him to toss $10,000 to the stranger’s wife before fleeing the scene.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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For example, in Colorado, Utah and West Virginia, only soft drinks and/or soda would no longer be purchasable with SNAP.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Corruptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corruptible. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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