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
  • Some explicitly backed his Democratic opponent, the legendarily corrupt Edwin Edwards.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
  • According to some research, Hungary has been the most corrupt country in the EU for years now.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • Meet the chicken kidney sponge, a true ecosystem engineer that could use its filter-feeding power to clean the degraded habitats in and around busy harbors.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
  • Once the spin is stopped, the company plans to update the craft's guidance, navigation and control systems to compensate for the degraded configuration.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of degraded
Adjective
  • The anime merely depicts a border spat between a few small nations, whereas the manga is more global in reach and also deals with much of the underlying mysteries of the corrupted world the characters now live in.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Clark has a lot in common with Sam Neill’s corrupted scientist in Event Horizon.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
Definition of corrupted
Adjective
  • Jacobs collapses the distance between the nation’s lofty ideals and its depraved slave regime.
    — Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean that artificially sugared sodas, retail consumption, or social media are depraved, worthless activities akin to the cardinal sin of sloth or the tragic spiral of heroin addiction.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Definition of depraved
Adjective
  • The signal degrades at every step along this journey, and the guessers have to do their best with some pretty warped data.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
  • Googlers peppered the executives with anxious questions about whether products like YouTube were reinforcing warped beliefs and making the country more divided.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 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
  • The series is chock full of supernatural happenings, with evil and malicious beings (both human and not) around every corner.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Figures tangle in a perpetual struggle between good and evil, but always with the reassurance that goodness will prevail.
    — The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 28 July 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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