The phrase "corrupted themselves" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to become morally or ethically corrupt or to cause harm or damage to oneself. Example: The politician's greed and selfish actions eventually led to his downfall as he corrupted himself with bribery and dishonesty.
Carol Marshall, Alameda, Calif.: Perhaps like anything in life, conservatives once in power just corrupted themselves.
Those readers may end up feeling a bit corrupted themselves, but they'll probably finish this collection of unapologetic confessions in a single sitting.
The metaphysical strain is what makes Chambers different from most of the millions of other Communist believers who wasted their years and corrupted themselves before losing their faith, and what makes "Witness" a successor to Augustine's "Confessions" and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".
Perhaps their pro-life convictions outweigh all other considerations, or maybe they've just corrupted themselves.
"Africans are not corrupting themselves.
Try to imagine what the world as it now is might become if cheap clean home-grown sources of energy quickly became available to the major economies, and they no longer needed to guzzle, endlessly guzzle, the poison from those places, poisoning and corrupting themselves in the process.
That the governments of the world will somehow un-corrupt themselves.
In general, corruptors corrupt, and the corrupted allow themselves to be corrupted, without adequate moral justification for so doing or allowing to be done.
He has also created a new, more powerful, internal-affairs unit to monitor anti-corruption officials.Independent activists who dare to speak out about party corruption, however, are being suppressed as ruthlessly as the corrupt themselves.
"The bottom line is the Americans were corrupt themselves".
Referring to the report by Mr. Fisch last year, Mr. Lesniak said of the commission, "they were cited for being corrupt, themselves".
