temptable

adjective

Definition of temptablenext
as in corrupt

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temptable
  1. corrupt
  2. degraded
  3. depraved
  4. warped
  5. perverted
  6. evil
  7. degenerate
  8. sinful
Adjective
  • The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The only alternative to withdrawal was defending a pathetically inept and corrupt government in Kabul until the sun exploded, which was really no alternative at all.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • These pollutants then build up in a confined area, resulting in degraded air quality, which may affect people with and other health concerns.
    Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • However, in the digital age, this kind of content has been mass-produced and even more degraded.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 June 2024
Definition of degraded
Adjective
  • The catalyzing incident here is the disappearance of a teen girl, which of course turns into a much larger investigation of more widespread and depraved criminality, as these cases always do on TV.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The depravity of human greed at its most despicable and depraved on full display.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of depraved
Adjective
  • These claims are usually unsubstantiated, cause consumers to have a warped idea of an ideal pet diet, and cause health issues for their four-legged friends.
    Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
  • All the while the wind howled without remorse, coercing the leafless limbs of maples and oaks into a kind of warped dance.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of warped
Adjective
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
  • Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of perverted
Adjective
  • Last season followed the travails of five disparate high schoolers who must band together to survive the outbreak of evil forces from a creepy local home where a teen once died in a fire.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Artists proving no tyranny, no matter how evil or total, can extinguish our desire for self-expression.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • There was alarm at the prospect of hundreds of thousands of soldiers returning to the U.S. with such degenerate experience under their belts, and presumably spreading these habits among hitherto innocent American wives.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of degenerate
Adjective
  • And in this case, there’s nothing more sinful than talking about LeBron James trades.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But it also was forged from a particular kind of alchemy that separates a sinful holiday confection from a sugar-sodden mess.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of sinful
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