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subversion, degeneracy, depravity, corruptness, putrescence, putridness, rottenness Definition: inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering";destroying someone''s (or some group''s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city''s subversion of rural innocence";moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity";lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain;decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation);in a state of progressive putrefaction;
Hyponyms: infection, venality, jobbery Attributes: corrupt, incorrupt Derivational Morphology:
corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
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