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Definition of incorruptible in English: incorruptibleadjective ɪnkəˈrʌptɪb(ə)lˌɪnkəˈrəptəb(ə)l 1Not susceptible to corruption, especially by bribery. 不腐败的（尤指不受贿的） Example sentencesExamples - Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
- We cannot maintain an incorruptible police force in a society that condones corruption.
- But in the course of unmasking them, the novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest.
- The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
- Always wrong, in short; but forthright, and incorruptible.
- His protagonist-heroes, especially the Chief Justice in The Lawyer and the Libertine and the film director in Appointment at Amalfi, show a scrupulous and incorruptible concern for truth and justice.
- He was incorruptible, and had an intolerance to sloth and greed.
- I've given up on certainties, but I do still believe in some things: that British racing is incorruptible, and that one day sport will once again be something we enjoy for its own sake.
- The Horse, with its rigorous style and feeling of incorruptible honesty, is directly in the Güney tradition of social protest.
- In addition, suppose a bureaucrat was incorruptible and wanted to do his job with total commitment to efficiency, demanding, say, that contractors reduce swollen overtime costs.
- The result was a corps that for decades commanded respect as the pinnacle of efficient, incorruptible policing.
- An incorruptible panel of independent and competent adjudicators is imperative in ensuring that competitors are judged purely on the merit of their performance.
- For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
- Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
- In many ways, it is a better introduction than high school civics and college political science courses that preach an incorruptible legal system - especially its judiciary - that always remains above politics.
- As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
- This conservative estimate is based on the assumption that a large number of ultrasonologists are incorruptible.
- We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
- Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes.
- What price political openness, legality, free-trade and an incorruptible civil service - I thought - if the end result is an England full of Macdonalds, Seattle coffee bars and pubs that serve Harvester Fayre.
Synonyms unbribable, honest, trustworthy, scrupulous, conscientious, principled, high-principled, anti-corruption, proper, correct, honourable, upright, straight, upstanding, high-minded, righteous, right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, just, noble, respectable, decent 2Not subject to death or decay; everlasting. 不死的；不烂的；永存的 Example sentencesExamples - Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
- Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
- While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
- I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God.
- By nature they are eternal and incorruptible, but Eriugena also thinks of individual created things as located spatially and temporally.
Synonyms imperishable, indestructible, non-biodegradable, not decaying, non-corroding, indissoluble, durable, made to last, enduring, everlasting, eternal rare perdurable
Derivativesnounɪnkərʌptɪˈbɪlətiˌɪnkəˌrəptəˈbɪlədi In the meantime I had been quizzed, scrutinised and repeatedly asked to testify to my fair-mindedness and incorruptibility, with an insistence that began to make me feel unworthy: I was not putting in for canonisation, after all. Example sentencesExamples - They see little potential for abuse, because they believe that by virtue of his arriving at the ‘correct’ leftist viewpoint, an individual has demonstrated his intellectual and moral incorruptibility.
- That says an awful lot about the integrity and incorruptibility of the man.
- Already, a couple of journals have brought out articles on the late leader, known for simplicity, incorruptibility and concern for the poor.
- Integrity implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge.
Synonyms honesty, honour, trustworthiness, scrupulousness, conscientiousness, correctness, rectitude, probity, integrity, uprightness, high-mindedness, righteousness, right-mindedness, virtue, nobility, respectability, decency
adverbˌɪnkəˈrʌptɪbliˌɪnkəˈrəptəbli So ‘if there was no field of creativity that was incorruptibly pure, where did that leave humanism?’ Example sentencesExamples - And he knew that she actually enjoyed sharing and keeping those secrets, that she was incorruptibly loyal to him.
- It isn't as if a democratic election acted as a magnet, pointing a nation resolutely and incorruptibly toward liberty.
- Orwell saw the merit of the English judges as lying in their interpretation of the law according to the books and in their doing so incorruptibly.
- The good is rescued from the forces of cynicism and betrayal by a hero who is simply yet incorruptibly himself: his guilelessness is a kind of saving grace.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin incorruptibilis, from in- 'not' + corruptibilis 'corruptible'. Definition of incorruptible in US English: incorruptibleadjectiveˌɪnkəˈrəptəb(ə)lˌinkəˈrəptəb(ə)l 1Not susceptible to corruption, especially by bribery. 不腐败的（尤指不受贿的） Example sentencesExamples - In many ways, it is a better introduction than high school civics and college political science courses that preach an incorruptible legal system - especially its judiciary - that always remains above politics.
- In addition, suppose a bureaucrat was incorruptible and wanted to do his job with total commitment to efficiency, demanding, say, that contractors reduce swollen overtime costs.
- The Horse, with its rigorous style and feeling of incorruptible honesty, is directly in the Güney tradition of social protest.
- As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
- Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
- He was incorruptible, and had an intolerance to sloth and greed.
- His protagonist-heroes, especially the Chief Justice in The Lawyer and the Libertine and the film director in Appointment at Amalfi, show a scrupulous and incorruptible concern for truth and justice.
- For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
- The result was a corps that for decades commanded respect as the pinnacle of efficient, incorruptible policing.
- An incorruptible panel of independent and competent adjudicators is imperative in ensuring that competitors are judged purely on the merit of their performance.
- The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
- This conservative estimate is based on the assumption that a large number of ultrasonologists are incorruptible.
- But in the course of unmasking them, the novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest.
- We cannot maintain an incorruptible police force in a society that condones corruption.
- Always wrong, in short; but forthright, and incorruptible.
- Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
- We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
- I've given up on certainties, but I do still believe in some things: that British racing is incorruptible, and that one day sport will once again be something we enjoy for its own sake.
- What price political openness, legality, free-trade and an incorruptible civil service - I thought - if the end result is an England full of Macdonalds, Seattle coffee bars and pubs that serve Harvester Fayre.
- Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes.
Synonyms unbribable, honest, trustworthy, scrupulous, conscientious, principled, high-principled, anti-corruption, proper, correct, honourable, upright, straight, upstanding, high-minded, righteous, right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, just, noble, respectable, decent 2Not subject to death or decay; everlasting. 不死的；不烂的；永存的 Example sentencesExamples - By nature they are eternal and incorruptible, but Eriugena also thinks of individual created things as located spatially and temporally.
- Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
- Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
- While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
- I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God.
Synonyms imperishable, indestructible, non-biodegradable, not decaying, non-corroding, indissoluble, durable, made to last, enduring, everlasting, eternal
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from ecclesiastical Latin incorruptibilis, from in- ‘not’ + corruptibilis ‘corruptible’. |