corruptionist

[ kuh-ruhp-shuh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who practices or endorses corruption, especially in politics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corruptionist¹

First recorded in 1800–10; corruption + -ist

Example Sentences

If, sir, you were to muster before me the murderer with blood-wet hands, the thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Bryan, four years ago, in denouncing this corruptionist, at the time of the nomination of Alton B. Parker, said he was totally destitute of honor and compared him to a train robber.

From Project Gutenberg

The political jobber or corruptionist is almost always an optimist.

From Project Gutenberg

New York has no free public library; movements to establish one there have repeatedly been contemplated, but have been abandoned, because the men who could have set up the library would not encounter the practical certainty of its becoming one more corruptionist engine in the hands of the city rulers.

From Project Gutenberg

As late as the campaign which preceded the general elections of 1872 he called himself an 'Independent,' and the Globe contemptuously classed him, in respect of certain votes he had given in parliament which happened to be distasteful to Brown, as 'a Tory and a corruptionist.'

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