TEMPTABLE Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

temptable

adjective

Definition of temptable

as in corrupt

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Adjective

The duo and two others, Mohammed Hurabi and Lars Zeepvat, were hit with the worst charges — felony corrupt organizations, conspiracy, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, and other related offenses.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2026
Agostino Abbatiello, Thomas Robinson, Mohammed Hurabi and Lars Zeepvat are facing several felony charges, including corrupt organizations, conspiracy and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of corrupt

Adjective

Perhaps building on degraded land, sharing space with agriculture, and designing eco-friendly infrastructure.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, degraded working conditions—see, the adjunctification discourse—make academic professionalization less and less sustainable.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of degraded

Adjective

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
But Cheekface will still be here, filtering our depraved mutterings into sardonic bangers.

— Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of depraved

Adjective

Something cool happens when light passes this warped space; its usually straight path is curved.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Check If Your Stove Is Actually Tilted Before reaching for a wrench, make sure the stove is the problem, not a warped pan or an uneven burner.

— Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 18 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

She’d been told that people outside her faith were evil, and yet her pastor’s wife had turned her away while these scientists were literally bending over to help her.

— Felice J. Freyer, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Still, there is much old-school horror fun to be had here, with costume designer Liz Keogh Palmer and the team of makeup artists especially deserving of credit with their mind-blowing work on various evil spirits.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of evil

Adjective

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
Populist theatrics, divorced from the prosaic work of consensus-building and problem-solving, degenerate into political escapism.

— Will Marshall, Washington Post, 18 July 2026

Definition of degenerate

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