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temptable

adjective

Definition of temptablenext
as in corrupt

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temptable
  1. corrupt
  2. degraded
  3. corrupted
  4. depraved
  5. warped
  6. perverted
  7. evil
  8. degenerate
Adjective
  • Even as the country’s leadership grew more corrupt and repressive, Moscow kept getting more dazzling.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Beyond the shimmying visit, the mystery of who killed Victor is expected to motor the sophomore season’s overarching storyline, including digging into people from the corrupt politician’s shady past.
    — Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • Energy analysts have consistently cautioned that raising Venezuelan output meaningfully will take years and billions of dollars in repairs to degraded infrastructure.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
  • That matters because degraded land is not simply an environmental concern.
    — Shooka Bidarian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of degraded
Adjective
  • But the point was just that Nick’s character is emulating Sheridan’s poisonous corrupted values, and the internet is a vehicle for that relationship.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Sponsors are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or technically corrupted entries.
    — Sponsored content, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of corrupted
Adjective
  • Chad Powers season 2 Season one, which spun an Eli Manning gimmick video into a sports comedy with Glen Powell as a disgraced college-football star, started to veer in a fascinating, somewhat depraved direction.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In the mid-1970s, Slash’s mother, the costume designer Ola Hudson, worked on the American production of The Rocky Horror Show, whose Frank-N-Furter is the unmistakable touchstone of Bourzgui’s David, down to the depraved purr.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of depraved
Adjective
  • The following adventure is a wild blend of time travel, crime, and a warped version of reality.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Pans that are flush with the surface transfer uniform heat, but warped pans are more likely to have hot and cold spots.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of warped
Adjective
  • Tracy Letts plays her perverted husband, while Callum Turner, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage and Riley Keough star as her very messed up children, and Elle Fanning is Bell’s paramour.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 July 2026
  • The gravity of the crimes was made apparent not just in the details provided in court documents but by how family members of children at the daycare reacted when the perverted duo appeared in court for their arraignments.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 June 2026
Definition of perverted
Adjective
  • In our conversations, his usual framing was about good and evil, not catastrophically warped thinking.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Well, everyone knows Ebenezer Scrooge was an evil, wealthy miser who hated Christmas.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • When the discs degenerate, vertebrae lose the spongy buffer between bones, resulting in pain.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Or when some man behaving like a degenerate gambler plods into Chelsea Gray’s DMs with a disgusting slur.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of degenerate
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“Temptable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temptable. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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