corruptibility

American  

[kuh-ruhpt-uh-bil-uh-tee] / kəˌrʌpt əˈbɪl ə ti /

noun

1. the state or quality of being corruptible; an inclination toward corruption.

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Other Word Forms

• incorruptibility noun
• noncorruptibility noun

Example Sentences

The “Fargo” creator expanded a single Coen Brothers movie into a multi-season anthology about the corruptibility of American goodness.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

You perceive Hale’s true colors immediately through those associations, just as you can see Ernest’s venality through DiCaprio’s immediately recognizable brand of boyish corruptibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

In a statement on Friday officials said the pair "are accused of giving false testimony before the so-called Ibiza committee of inquiry in the Austrian parliament... regarding the alleged corruptibility of his government".

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2023

“Some mode of displacing an unfit magistrate is rendered indispensable by the fallibility of those who choose, as well as by the corruptibility of the man chosen,” the Virginia delegate George Mason said.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

Now the intention of nature is that everyone born corporally, should come to perfect age: yet this is sometimes hindered by reason of the corruptibility of the body, which is forestalled by death.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint