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corruptly

/kəˈrʌpt.li/

corruptly adverb: in a corrupt manner.

Adverb

corruptly (comparative more corruptly, superlative most corruptly)

  1. In a corrupt manner.
    • More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: […]1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court...
    • Hindostan was then parcelled out into twelve grand divisions, called soobahs, to each of which a viceroy was assigned, by the title of Soobahdar, corruptly written Soobah by European writers; for, soobah signifies province: many of these soobahs were in extent equal to large European kingdoms.1806, [Thomas Maurice], Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, […] of Hindostan: […] , volume I. Containing the Dissertation on the Antient Geographical...

corruptly meaning in Bengali

corruptly in Bengali

দুর্নীতিপরায়ণ ভাবে

Forms of corruptly

comparativemore corruptly
superlativemost corruptly

Origin of corruptly

From corrupt + -ly.

Questions about corruptly

What does corruptly mean?
Corruptly means in a corrupt manner.
What is corruptly in Bengali?
Corruptly in Bengali is দুর্নীতিপরায়ণ ভাবে. See Corruptly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is corruptly?
Corruptly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce corruptly?
Corruptly is pronounced /kəˈrʌpt.li/ (US).

Words near corruptly in the dictionary

  1. corruptionless
  2. corruptions
  3. corruptive
  4. corruptively
  5. corruptless
  6. corruptly
  7. corruptness
  8. corruptocracies
  9. corruptocracy
  10. corruptor
  11. corruptors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corruptly (page history and authors); corruptly (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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