Sentence examples for downright corrupt from inspiring English sources
Some brokers are downright corrupt.
Nonetheless, many of the state's appointees at PZU have been incompetent; some have been downright corrupt.
The causes are multiple and well known: the chronic problems of a mismanaged car industry, and a city leadership that was variously confrontational, undisciplined and inept, on occasion downright corrupt.
I'd argue precisely the opposite: If you want to make people even more cynical about government, keep talking about "solutions" that are simply variations on the unworkable, compromised, and often downright corrupt policies we have today.
"General Motors is about to go bankrupt due to the lack of foresight of countless overpaid executives who apparently like to design cars using bricks and a old glue gun, and the U.S. economy is in a tailspin thanks in large part to some of the most disastrous, corrupt and downright criminal policies and practices of a previous administration I helped spawn," Gingrich didn't add, sighingly.
And he often played downright dislikeable characters - the corrupt modern cowboy in Hud, for instance, and the overbearing General Leslie R Groves, the military boss at Los Alamos in Roland Joffé's Shadow Makers (aka Fat Man and Little Boy in the United States), though neither was an outright villain.
They are thought to be open to bribery, as well as being racist, corrupt and often downright criminal.
Indeed, one of the greatest culprits when it comes to swindling taxpayers is the Transportation Security Administration, one of the most corrupt, ineffective and downright abusive of the government's many agencies (which is saying a lot) and a massive waste of taxpayer money.
That this ends up giving the incumbent carte blanche to pursue policies that are wasteful, corrupt, authoritarian and sporadically downright criminal doesn't necessarily register.
And then Logan said something that would be downright laughable if it weren't so reflective of a thoroughly corrupt mindset.
