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What is the adjective for corrupt?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs corrupt and corrump which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

corrupt
  1. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  2. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  3. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled, fraudulent, bribable, crooked, dishonorable, dishonourable, shady, untrustworthy, venal, amoral, bent, corruptible, deceitful, discreditable, disreputable, scandalous, shameful, underhand, buyable, criminal, felonious, grafting, iniquitous, lawless, nefarious, swindling, treacherous, villainous, corrupted, dirty, malfeasant, profiteering, rascally, rotten, scoundrelly, tricky, underhanded, unethical, dodgy, mercenary, unfaithful, extortionate, faithless, foul, knavish, open, perfidious, snide … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “We must vote these corrupt politicians out of office!”
      “Citizens would suffer under the corrupt and evil regime.”
      “The data is now corrupt from having been passed through several filters.”
corrupted
  1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
  2. Dishonest.
  3. Containing errors.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. tarnished, sullied, tainted, contaminated, decayed, defiled, polluted, soiled, spoiled, spoilt, stained, besmirched, degraded, dirtied, infected, rotten, adulterated, debased, despoiled, fouled, perverted, putrefied, ruined, vitiated, impure, corrupt, adulterate, alloyed, dirty, poisoned, bastardized, unclean, bastardised, mixed, impaired, devalued, diluted, lowered, depreciated, filthy, attenuated, blemished, infested, blended, deteriorated, dissolved, trashed, desecrated, foetid, imperfect … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “At night, the stars bring light to the bright green face of a brutalized land and a corrupted landscape.”
      “President Kibaki came into office at the end of 2002 promising to reform the corrupted regime.”
      “Is there any way to recover the corrupted data?”
corruptible
  1. (of a person) bribable, that can be bought
  2. perishable, subject to decay
  3. Synonyms:
      4. bribable, unprincipled, dishonest, corrupt, venal, dirty, unethical, bent, purchasable, mercenary, corruptable, easily corrupted, shady, unscrupulous, crooked, untrustworthy, dishonourable, fraudulent, underhanded, amoral, dodgy, buyable, grafting, dishonorable, double-dealing, shifty, underhand, lawless, criminal, tricky, swindling, malfeasant, disreputable, sordid, crafty, duplicitous, conscienceless, guileful, deceitful, corrupted, deceptive, questionable, treacherous, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous, rogue, fast, sharp, rotten … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The corruptible politician accepted large sums of money in exchange for making favorable decisions.”
corruptless
  1. (archaic) Not susceptible to corruption or decay; incorruptible.
corruptful
  1. (obsolete) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
corruptionless
  1. Without corruption.
corruptable
  1. Corruptible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. corruptible, bribable, unprincipled, dishonest, corrupt, venal, dirty, unethical, bent, purchasable, mercenary, easily corrupted … more
corruptive
  1. Tending to corrupt.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. corrupting, adverse, harmful, damaging, dangerous, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, deleterious, destructive, hazardous, bad, catastrophic, dire, disastrous, negative, pernicious, unfavorable, unfavourable, cataclysmic, crippling, deadly, devastating, disadvantageous, fatal, prejudicial, subversive, undesirable, baleful, baneful, calamitous, critical, ill, lethal, malignant, perilous, prejudicious, ruinous, sinister, toxic, unfortunate, unhealthy, unpropitious, virulent, cancerous, corroding, corrosive, counterproductive, evil, inexpedient … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Nothing is gained, however, by calling melodrama, or melodramatic violence, morally corruptive.”
      “Food is also symbolic of corruptive Europe, which offers only tinned, synthetic unnatural food.”
      “By contrast, there is much evidence that the post-1913 system has been deeply corruptive.”
corrumpable
  1. (obsolete) corruptible
corruptest
  1. superlative form of corrupt: most corrupt
corrupting
  1. present participle of corrupt
  2. Synonyms:
      3. depraving, perverting, debauching, demoralising, demoralizing, ruining, profaning, prostituting, luring, seducing, warping, leading astray, making degenerate, debasing, subverting, degrading, bastardising, bastardizing, blighting, cheapening, defiling, impairing, marring, undermining, abasing, cankering, damaging, despoiling, deteriorating, infecting, polluting, vitiating, blemishing, demeaning, depreciating, hurting, injuring, lessening, lowering, poisoning, staining, sullying, defacing, deforming, disfiguring, disgracing, harming, ravaging, violating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This is a remarkable book, and a reminder of power's corrupting influence is always timely.”
corrumped
  1. simple past tense and past participle of corrump
corrumping
  1. present participle of corrump
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