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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. Jerry Falwell:

    Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

  2. Saul David Alinsky:

    Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

  3. Republican Senator Mitt Romney:

    What he did was not 'perfect,' no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep one's self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

  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. 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.

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