corruptible

Examples of corrupting

corrupting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Profit, as we shall see, was portrayed either as secondary or as corrupting.
They portrayed the desire for profit as one of the vices corrupting the commonwealth.
These "debts may be compromising or corrupting," and impartiality may become an improbable ideal for the insider-ethicist.
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.
As one might expect it was this which aroused the most anxiety over the theory's potentially corrupting threats to morality and decency.
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.
He condemned the vice of idleness for corrupting these qualities, and he portrayed honour and glory as the reward of good citizens.
Far from corrupting philosophy, the presence of commercial patrons demonstrated the new philosophy's vitality.
The doublespeak of war is an instance of thought corrupting language and language corrupting thought.
Intuitively, the reason for this condition is that we must be able to evaluate e1 after e2 or vice versa without corrupting the previous result.
In order to be credible as the cause of such a drastically corrupting effect, however, opium has to be powerful stuff.
Indeed, they amount to ways of corrupting or destroying the self.
It is not yet clear whether it could be deployed by the mole without increasing the complexity of the mole's depth profile and corrupting the pristine borehole environment.
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