Kleptocracy

Quick meaning: Kleptocracy is a noun meaning A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

Meaning

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

Example Sentences

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

Quevedo, no ordinary person, is very amusing. His Visions of Hell in particular, though of a very different kind from Dante's, are more edifying. But our business at present is with his "History of Paul the Spanish Sharper, the Pattern of Rogues and Mirror of Vagabonds." We do not know that he deserves these appellations so much as some others but they are to be looked upon as titular ornaments, common to the Spanish Kleptocracy.

Word Forms

• kleptocracies

Synonyms for kleptocracy

Depending on context, synonyms include corruptocracy, kleptarchy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cleptocracy, kleptarchy, corruptocracy, plutocracy, kratocracy, narcokleptocracy.

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