kleptocratic

Examples

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• As kleptocratic tendencies increased, coupled with reckless governance and poor economics, Christians were hit hardest, especially in Iraq, Egypt, and Syria.

  Academic text (2014)

• In a kleptocratic state, leaders prioritize personal wealth over the welfare of the people.

• An actual democracy is kleptocratic mob rule, hardly the best possible form of governance.

  Blog text (9)

• What they have achieved is breaking the protective membrane that the kleptocratic oligarchy grew around itself in many African countries.

  Academic text (1993)

• The government's heavy involvement in the market became increasingly outdated and primarily served the interests of a narrow and kleptocratic elite.

  Academic text (1998)

• New infusions of aid would likely just perpetuate the kleptocratic regimes that have slowly strangled the continent since independence.

  Academic text (2005)

• Their practices of clientelism, repression, and corruption are the mainstays of chiefdoms and kleptocratic regimes.

  Academic text (2005)

• Of course, oligarchic and kleptocratic governments and low-level corruption are common in much of Asia, even in its fastest-developing economies (including China's).

  Academic text (2004)

• What began as a limited but genuine people's uprising against a kleptocratic dictatorship has now been overtaken by a Saudi-backed project to destabilize Syria.

  Blog text (23)

• According to a long-time observer of Kenya, Moi's rule is an "unaccountable system of personal rule with kleptocratic sycophantic excesses topped only by Mobutu's Zaire."

  Academic text (2002)

Antonyms

A

accountable

284 4.6

Responsible for actions and must explain them to someone in charge

E

ethical

259 4.1

Following rules about what is right and wrong in people's actions

How Corrupt

kleptocratic

• Literature

1 9.5

thieving

25 6.3

corrupt

298 4.4

honest

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

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Etymology