Sentence examples for corrupt mentality from inspiring English sources
We got were we are today after a series of governments mismanaged finances and cultivated a corrupt mentality that favoured clientelism and easy, unfounded success.
The common thread here is a malignant air of invincibility corrupting the team mentality: players police each other, forcing others to comply with the values of the pack.
Before Katrina, New Orleans was a basket case, albeit a charming one, with a corrupt government, an entitlement mentality and a decaying public sector.
Recent Johnny Depp poop-nugget Transcendence was a throwback to this late-90s mentality of computers corrupting man's boundless capacity for magnanimous action.
Aside from attributing underdevelopment to crab mentality, Siquijodnons also point out how corrupt practices such as politicising distribution of resources to favour certain parties hinder the island's development.
Those may be the most corrupt of all, since their expedient "make no waves" mentality was at the very least amoral, which is another way of saying immoral.
It is a sobering indictment of where the "boys will be boys" mentality can ultimately lead: to a systemically corrupt atmosphere where ugly, assaultive, racist, misogynist, and emotional (sometimes physical) abuse is not only endemic, but tolerated and forgiven.
Social security and tuition freezes seem like worthy goals, but the strategy and mentality is still purely reformist tinkering within the constraints of a manifestly corrupt system and thereby remaining ultimately collusive with the status quo.
