bankruptcy
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈbæŋkrʌptsi/
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bancarrota moral
- Pretty soon... there will be national bankruptcy.
- moral bankruptcy
- intellectual bankruptcy
- political bankruptcy
But it it tells you that there's a, a deep rot, as you say, and a bankruptcy there.
- But it it tells you that there's a, a deep rot, as you say, and a bankruptcy there.
- The global bankruptcy of techniques, he says, is as clearly discernible as are its partial successes.
- And so someone like a Tiger Woods was someone who had this intense mental discipline but had a spiritual bankruptcy.
- Obama peeled back the curtain on Trump's moral bankruptcy.
- You never want your friends to feel like their ideas are not good ideas, but thus far these ideas have been a endless pit of bankruptcy.
Examples
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The major problem was the bankruptcy of the City of New York.
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...unprecedented bankruptcy of a financial institution.
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Harry says this sort of thing is a kind of mental bankruptcy.
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The possibility of national bankruptcy... will be dealt with entirely behind closed doors.
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Korea's bankruptcy is reported as an established fact in Wall Street.
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National bankruptcy has already begun, but the government isn't doing anything at all.
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More remarkable is that his paper's rivals did not focus on the moral bankruptcy of their competitor.
Academic text (2000) -
So this is a testament to the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the anti-reform racket.
Blog text (27) -
Due to our inadequate handling of the Hanbo crisis and the bankruptcy of Kia Motors, foreigners began to doubt our crisis management ability.
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Many believe that the recent scandals reveal a clear moral bankruptcy in the leadership of the organization.
Synonyms
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7.1
A complete lack of care about right and wrong in actions
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Etymology
Bankruptcy can also mean a complete lack of something and it comes from the same idea of banca rotta, where banca means 'bench' and rotta means 'broken'. So calling someone 'morally bankrupt' is like saying their moral 'funds' are empty — there is nothing left of that quality.