Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not corrupt; not depraved; not perverted; incorrupt; pure: as, an uncorrupt judgment; an uncorrupt text.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incorrupt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
corrupt ;honest ,fair . - adjective archaic Not having
decayed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our history and jurisprudence with respect to free expression is full of conflicts of two sets of rights (or a right and a principle ... namely uncorrupt elections) and decisions that find a balance between them.
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Sane, uncorrupt people would not put up with it, but sane, uncorrupt people don't get a say in Massachusetts.
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Meanwhile, because of rigged elections, strongman rule and the decimation of the tribal structure, the voices of the majority of Afghans - who are good-hearted and uncorrupt - have been completely drowned out.
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance Michael Hughes 2010
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Meanwhile, because of rigged elections, strongman rule and the decimation of the tribal structure, the voices of the majority of Afghans - who are good-hearted and uncorrupt - have been completely drowned out.
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance Michael Hughes 2010
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Meanwhile, because of rigged elections, strongman rule and the decimation of the tribal structure, the voices of the majority of Afghans - who are good-hearted and uncorrupt - have been completely drowned out.
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance Michael Hughes 2010
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People who can't do anything to change it, are ashamed for the country that they live in, and feel 'other' because they view as default, the countries that are 'uncorrupt', democratic, clean, filled with people who have great hair and always smell good.
What is Otherness? Hal Duncan 2009
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Meanwhile, because of rigged elections, strongman rule and the decimation of the tribal structure, the voices of the majority of Afghans - who are good-hearted and uncorrupt - have been completely drowned out.
Michael Hughes: U.S. Brokering Afghan 'Peace' Plan With An Unholy Alliance Michael Hughes 2010
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It's one of the most uncorrupt countries in Africa, one of the most efficient, effective governments.
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The experts I interviewed roundly asserted stability is still possible but wholly contingent upon the seating of a unifying national figure in Kabul, who is well-respected, uncorrupt and perceived as legitimate by all Afghan tribes.
Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Needs A Hero: How A Unifying National Leader Can Bring Peace 2010
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The American electoral system -- give or take perhaps the odd Supreme Court decision on hanging chads -- is uncorrupt.
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