corruptibility

noun

Definition of corruptibilitynext
as in venality

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  1. corruption
  2. degradation
  3. profligacy
  4. perversion
  5. degeneracy
  6. decadence
  7. dissipation
  8. criminality
Noun
  • Three members of the council were also accused of corruption.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Local media reports said hundreds of amateur videos had been found at the finance official’s home during a raid associated with a corruption investigation.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Risk mitigation: Investors recognize that climate change and environmental degradation pose long-term risks to the financial system and specific sectors.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In addition, there has been some recent degradation of rangeland and pastures, as well as a lack of soil moisture for the establishment of fall-sown crops, including winter wheat, according to the USDA.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • For stock investors, surging yields due to fiscal profligacy (as opposed to strong economic growth) would likely weigh on the stock market.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Getty Images These extremely high public debt burdens are not due to fiscal profligacy.
    Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024
Definition of profligacy
Noun
  • There’s an itch to depict Diddy as a Black Jeffrey Epstein, the ringleader of clandestine, A-list perversion.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • But his breakaway is also a critique of the modern France where decadence is normalized.
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Chicken stock adds meaty savoriness while a bit of cream offers just a touch of silky decadence, all of which comes steeped with herbaceous thyme and sage, as well as a good hit of garlic.
    Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of decadence
Noun
  • In fact, in this place of supposed healing, Wojnicz begins to notice a certain strange dissipation, as if no one were actually getting better at all.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
  • It’s also wrapped in a breathable cover that helps with heat dissipation.
    Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • Well, one option might be to assume that the anonymous cash will be used primarily by criminals and possession of it will be taken to be prima facie evidence of criminality.
    David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Provided that the opposition is united in its decision, another electoral contest can serve as a moment for the opposition to marshal evidence of the regime’s criminality and to dial up internal pressure via street-level organizing.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of criminality
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