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
  • The only other president to be successfully impeached was Park Geun-hye, a conservative who left office in 2017 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a corruption scandal involving major corporations and the daughter of a cult leader.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
  • In 2016, parliament impeached Park Geun-hye, the country’s first female president, over a corruption scandal.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Our region has been plagued for far too long by foreign interference, wars, sectarian conflicts, terrorism, drug trafficking, water scarcity, refugee crises, and environmental degradation.
    Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2024
  • These novel electrolytes are designed to be much less susceptible to degradation, offering a more stable electrolyte-environment interface.
    Matthew Dawson, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • Defense spending that grows and grows without substantive reforms and allows a department that has never passed an audit to perpetuate its profligacy.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • On the balance of the play, Arsenal probably deserved more than nothing last season and the inverse was true at Villa Park on Saturday evening, decided by the host’s profligacy and conceding at a stage when Arsenal were stumbling.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 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
  • There’s an element of decadence to the menu, which serves contemporary—even avant-garde—Italian cuisine.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Opened in 1889 as the first truly high-end hotel in Britain, The Savoy has been at the forefront of decadence ever since.
    Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of decadence
Noun
  • What gives diamond this ability for heat dissipation?
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Just as importantly, this enables building complex models of the operating environment as well as other robots without burdening the on-robot processing, which is typically constrained by cost, power consumption, heat dissipation and other constraints.
    Florian Pestoni, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • Much of the reason for this can be traced back to the dark web and the underground criminal marketplaces that trade within it, where all the tools required to open up this type of criminality are laid bare for anyone with the cryptocurrency to purchase it.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And an already weary donor community sees risks in the growing militancy and criminality in the camps.
    Nasir Uddin, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of criminality
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