My first three takes of the beginning of this chapter got ruined by clerp because the visual of the two main characters covered in seaweed and stuck hip-deep in a ball pit filled with sushi rice gives me giggles that I have not been able to suppress.
An individual entering the auspicious ranks of revered spiritual authority with the exclusive intent to sexually violate unsuspecting adolescent boys.
As yet another example of pervasive clergevil, a local priest was defrocked for sexual transgressions against young male members of his congregation; he was taken outside the walls of the city and stoned to death in accordance with scripture.
A type of government in which corruption is widespread. The corruption is so strong that society accepts it as a part of normality, reacting with suspicion when some public worker or politician doesn't embezzle something.
Gosh, that mayor actually used the city's money to build stuff for the city. Something's not right here. That's a disrespect to our cleptocracy!
dafuq just happened, those people were convicted for corruption? Is that a crime, really?! That's absurd, i thought we were living in a cleptocracy here!