TEMPTABLE Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

temptable

adjective

Definition of temptable

as in corrupt

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Adjective

The most egregious perpetrators of fraud in the industry were corrupt doctors who were paid by patients to send insurance companies medical examination reports that omitted unfavorable findings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
That unaffordability, Talarico argued at the nighttime rally in Texas that was packed with younger voters, is because billionaires and corrupt politicians have rigged the system.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of corrupt

Adjective

Design choices previously thought to boost power, such as widening the gap between electrodes, actually degraded performance under true operating conditions.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Initially, Pike’s attorneys and several death penalty experts raised the possibility that the drugs may have been too old or degraded to work as intended.

— Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 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

The loss of every life to violence is a tragedy, even when that violence is necessary to hold a depraved killer accountable.

— Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 12 Oct. 2026
Who doesn’t want to hear about the possible soulless and depraved having an affair and getting away with it?

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of depraved

Adjective

Bamford’s suffering is heartbreaking, her resilience is moving and her material about it all is a warped kind of genius.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
In the video, the pair wander through warped train carriages and rooms with no way out, following a mythical creature that is part peacock, part Ouroboros.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of warped

Adjective

That’s good, but his methods have become perverted along the way.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 8 Oct. 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

What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.

— David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
It's based on a Russian fairy tale called the Firebird, which is about a young prince who rescues a coterie of princesses from an evil sorcerer.

— Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of evil

Adjective

In Parkinson’s disease, neurons producing a chemical messenger called dopamine degenerate, and the dopamine itself cannot cross from the bloodstream into the brain.

— Mallory Green, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
When the discs degenerate, vertebrae lose the spongy buffer between bones, resulting in pain.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of degenerate

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