Crossword-Solution: CORRUPT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Corrupt | a. | Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. |
| Corrupt | a. | Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. |
| Corrupt | a. | Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt. |
| Corrupt | v. t. | To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. |
| Corrupt | v. t. | To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. |
| Corrupt | v. t. | To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. |
| Corrupt | v. t. | To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. |
| Corrupt | v. t. | To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. |
| Corrupt | v. i. | To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. |
| Corrupt | v. i. | To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness. |
We have 147 clues for the answer “CORRUPT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bribable, say | 1 answer |
| Dishonest (like some politicians) | 1 answer |
| Like the Mafia | 1 answer |
| Start of a quote by 36A | 1 answer |
| Taking bribes. | 1 answer |
| Willing to take bribes | 1 answer |
| DESTROY purity of | 2 answers |
| Lacking integrity | 3 answers |
| MAKE bad | 4 answers |
| animalize | 5 answers |
| LOWER in dignity | 5 answers |
| attaint | 7 answers |
| bastardize | 7 answers |
| misteach | 8 answers |
| BRIBABLE | 8 answers |
| CLEAN (ant.) | 10 answers |
| BASTARDISE | 10 answers |
| DEBAUCH THE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH WINE AND WOMEN | 11 answers |
| flagitious | 12 answers |
| bestialize | 13 answers |
| GOOD (ant.) | 13 answers |
| moulder | 13 answers |
| Lead astray | 14 answers |
| ANIMALISE | 15 answers |
| putrefy | 15 answers |
| Debased | 18 answers |
| Decadent | 18 answers |
| MAKE bad use of | 19 answers |
| brutalize | 19 answers |
| Canker | 19 answers |
| brutalise | 21 answers |
| Make Dirty | 23 answers |
| perverted | 24 answers |
| bestialise | 27 answers |
| Abase | 28 answers |
| Unchaste | 29 answers |
| Unprincipled | 30 answers |
| Tainted | 31 answers |
| Pollute | 36 answers |
| misstate | 36 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| Venal | 37 answers |
| seduce | 38 answers |
| Inveigle | 39 answers |
| Win over | 40 answers |
| deprave | 40 answers |
| Exhort | 41 answers |
| Induce | 42 answers |
| Unscrupulous | 42 answers |
| desecrated | 43 answers |
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Sentences with CORRUPT (5)
Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the _slaveholding religion_ of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked.
She prayed for herself and for Frank, and for Emil, among the temptations of that gay, corrupt old city.
They spread the myth that Reconstruction governments were in the grip of intolerably stupid and corrupt black men.
They will minister to better natures, giving health both of soul and of body; but those who are diseased in their bodies they will leave to die, and the corrupt and incurable souls they will put an end to themselves.
Quotes with CORRUPT (3)
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effec…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1964–2025).