corruptible

corrupt | American Dictionary

corrupt
adjective
us/kəˈrʌpt/
dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money:
It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation.
Corrupt also means bad:
Your philosophy is corrupt.

corruption

noun[ U ]us/kəˈrʌp·ʃən/
political corruption
corrupt
verb[ T ]
us/kəˈrʌpt/
to make someone dishonest and willing to use their position or power for personal advantage, esp. to get money:
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Don’t let your friends corrupt you (= have a bad moral influence on you).
If information in a computer is corrupted, it is damaged and can no longer be used.

corrupt | Business English

corrupt
adjective
uk /kəˈrʌpt/us
using your position or power dishonestly or illegally for your own advantage, especially to make money:
a corrupt businessman/official/manager, etc.On the advice of a corrupt financial adviser, the accused understated their income by tens of thousands of dollars.
corrupt activities/practices
IT
used to describe information on a computer that has been damaged or changed in some way and cannot be used:
corrupt data/files
corrupt
verb[ T ]
uk /kəˈrʌpt/us
to influence someone into doing bad or dishonest things:
It is said that power can corrupt people.
IT
to change or damage the information on a computer file so that it cannot be used:
Most of the data on the hard drive was corrupted.

Examples of corrupt

corrupt
The language rights activists present the victim of linguistic imperialism as a sponge who uncritically absorbs corrupting material.
Then some processors (fewer than half of them) fail, and the fault consists in corrupting precisely this bit.
If they do, then additional work is required to determine the extent to which they are corrupted.
Thus, corrupted norms are marked by low behavioural determinacy, but sufficiently strong moral persuasiveness.
He almost certainly doubted that there had ever been any revelation to be corrupted.
Projects were corrupted by the financial demands of the crown and the speculative investment of patronage seekers.
Requiring that some expressions must be treated specially depending on their types corrupts the interface between the components of the compiler.
We have seen that the 'only if ' part from right to left in the satisfaction condition is corrupted.
In addition to potential corruption in the process of signal transmission, a message can be corrupted at both the source and destination of the message.
They assumed that the chant currently being sung, which clearly did not fit exactly the modal classifications, had been corrupted through time and scribal error.
As one might expect it was this which aroused the most anxiety over the theory's potentially corrupting threats to morality and decency.
They suggest that this phenomenon can be captured in our framework under the assumption that the learner's observations are corrupted by some perceptual noise.
Uniform clothing offset the corrupting influences of vanity and competition so prevalent in modern society and subdued young women's tendencies toward competition.
Bootleggers are viewed as corrupting the music because they also have an interest in money.
Manualists saw sign language as possibly prior to spoken language, and therefore purer or less corrupted.
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