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Corrupting   /kərˈəptɪŋ/   Listen
Corrupting

adjective
1.
Seducing into corrupt practices.
2.
Harmful to the mind or morals.  Synonym: degrading.  "The vicious and degrading cult of violence"
3.
That infects or taints.  Synonym: contaminating.



Corrupt

verb
(past & past part. corrupted; pres. part. corrupting)
1.
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.  Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate.  "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men" , "Do school counselors subvert young children?" , "Corrupt the morals"
2.
Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence.  Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms.
3.
Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.  Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint.
4.
Alter from the original.  Synonym: spoil.



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"Corrupting" Quotes from Famous Books



... bore the raine Of all the world, and florisht most in might, The nations gan their soveraigntie disdaine, And cast to quitt them from their bondage quight. So, when all shrouded were in silent night, The Galles were, by corrupting of a mayde, Possest nigh of the Capitol through slight, Had not a Goose the treachery bewrayde. If then a goose great Rome from ruine stayde, And Iove himselfe, the patron of the place, Preservd from being to his foes betrayde, Why do vaine men mean things so much deface*, And in ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser

... all kinds, and make no effort to banish them. I tell them that this is a dangerous thing. If they rely on being safe so long as they keep their bodies from evil, and allow their minds and hearts to revel in evil thoughts, they are guilty of sin; they may not be staining their bodies, but they are corrupting their souls. ...
— The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent • S. Baring-Gould

... Protector, among which that of Monk stands foremost, appear in the narrative of the first of the Dutch wars under Charles. This superiority in tone and discipline gradually disappeared under the corrupting influence of court favor in a licentious government; and Holland, which upon the whole was worsted by England alone upon the sea in 1665, successfully resisted the combined navies of England and France in 1672. As regards the material of the three fleets, ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan

... private, for honesty and uprightness and virtue, if you condone vice because the vicious man is smart, or if you in any other way cast your weight into the scales in favor of evil, you are just so far corrupting and making less valuable the birthright of your children. The duties of American citizenship are very solemn as well as very precious; and each one of us here to-day owes it to himself, to his children, and to all his ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... plenties, and joyful births, Should not in this best garden of the world, Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage? Alas, she hath from France too long been chas'd, And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, Corrupting in it own fertility. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd, Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory, Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts ...
— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]


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