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cor·rupt·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. corruptingadjective

    seducing into corrupt practices

  2. corrupting, degradingadjective

    harmful to the mind or morals

    "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"

  3. corrupting, contaminatingadjective

    that infects or taints

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  1. corrupting

    Corrupting refers to the act of causing to act dishonestly or immorally in return for personal or monetary gain. It can also mean an alteration in functions or information, especially digital data, from its original or correct condition, either intentionally or unintentionally. Corrupting often involves practices that are illegal or unethical, damaging the integrity of someone or something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corrupting

    of Corrupt

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CORRUPTING in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CORRUPTING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of CORRUPTING in a Sentence

  1. Alexander Hamilton:

    In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.

  2. William Henry Harrison:

    There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  3. Gamal Abdelaziz:

    Our goal from the beginning has been to hold the defendants fully accountable for corrupting the college admissions process through cheating, bribery and fraud. The superseding indictments will further that effort.

  4. Tom McClintock:

    The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking?

  5. Alan John Percivale Taylor:

    There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

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