corruptive
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7.9
- adjective
- /kəˈrʌptɪv/
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corruptivo
- Addictions can lead to corruptive behaviors and decisions that harm individuals.
- corruptive power
And two, when you're rich and powerful and famous, I don't know, maybe you can enlighten me to which is the most corruptive.
- And two, when you're rich and powerful and famous, I don't know, maybe you can enlighten me to which is the most corruptive.
Examples
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This corruptive application of a life-saving technology threatens to turn public sentiment against its intended and higher use.
Blog text (23) -
What Winterbottom seems most determined to do is call our attention to the corruptive effect of wealth and the inclination of the wealthy to commodify and consume that which they hold dear.
Blog text (23) -
Addictions can be a very corruptive path.
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Biases in conclusions, and even more subtle biases as to which questions we address, are corruptive.
Blog text (2) -
Crime and corruption, especially corruptive and self-interested behavior among all levels of state officials, must be punished according to law so that an effective law deterrence will be established.
Academic text (1993) -
Therefore, incumbent leaders have sought, in a period of shrinking resources, to replace the corruptive tendencies of cooption with those of corporatism.
Academic text (1995) -
The documentary explored how corruptive influences in politics can undermine democracy.
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Many believe that excessive wealth can have a corruptive effect on personal values.
Synonyms
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6.7
Making someone's morals or behavior worse
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9.9
Causing people to act badly and lose good values
Making people do wrong things and lose good values
Antonyms
How Corrupting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word corruptive comes from Latin and an old root that means 'break' or 'spoil'. You can see the same root in familiar words like rupture and interrupt, where rupt means 'break', so something corruptive is something that 'breaks' or 'spoils' people's morals or behavior.