widespread

IPA: wˈaɪdsprˈɛd

Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

Examples of "widespread" in Sentences

Many mid-ranking Afghan officials are similarly frustrated with what they describe as widespread corruption.
One of the protesters' top demands has been holding the former president accountable for what they call widespread graft and corruption.
Reichbach scolded the department for what he described as a widespread culture of corruption endemic in its drug units, The New York Times reported.
Elmer has said he began gathering information on what he termed widespread tax evasion by wealthy businessmen and politicians, while he worked at the offshore Cayman Island trust subsidiary of Julius Baer.
Since the Jan. 9 verdict by a High Court judge—who acquitted Mr. Anwar of violating Malaysia's strict sodomy laws citing a lack of witnesses and flawed DNA evidence—the 64-year-old opposition leader has begun mobilizing support in this multiracial country, promising reforms to dismantle a decades-old affirmative-action program designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population while also targeting what he describes as widespread cronyism in Mr. Najib's government.