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Corruption

noun

Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. Synonym: corruptness. Antonym: incorruptness.

In a state of progressive putrefaction. Synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness.

Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).

Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles. Synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction. "Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration" , "Its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity" , "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity. Synonym: subversion. "The big city's subversion of rural innocence"

Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony).

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"Corruption" Quotes from Famous Books

... some workmen digging on the Appian Way came across an old Roman sarcophagus inscribed with the name 'Julia, daughter of Claudius.' On opening the coffer they found within its marble womb the body of a beautiful girl of about fifteen years of age, preserved by the embalmer's skill from corruption and the decay of time. Her eyes were half open, her hair rippled round her in crisp curling gold, and from her lips and cheek the bloom of maidenhood had not yet departed. Borne back to the Capitol, she became at once the centre of a new cult, and from all parts of the city crowded pilgrims ...

— Intentions • Oscar Wilde

... one of the broken creatures of the world. Whilst you keep her alive, you spread corruption. She'll probably hang on to life until it ...

— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... The stuff was on Danny as well as on the wheel, and we smelt like a procession of dead whales. For after the first choking explosion of the thing it reeked of nothing but corruption. It was the Skunk's Misery brew all right, only a ...

— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones

... Tuan X— "Go [and] take this [to] Mr. X——;" and most substantives can be formed into verbs. Combinations of substantives are used; e.g. Kreta api ("fire-carriages") "railway." Again, many European words are adopted bodily. In sadoe a Frenchman will easily recognize a corruption of dos-a-dos; ayer brandy (or ayer whisky), literally "water-brandy," will present no difficulties to the average Englishman. "Butter" is mentega, a Portuguese word. The vowels have the same value as ...

— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold

... divided between the claims of Lancaster and York; and the peasantry, who cared little for the claims of the rival Roses, were maddened by the extortions and indignities to which they were subjected. The feebleness and corruption of the Government, and the disasters in France, combined with the murder of the Duke of Suffolk, added to the general discontent; and the result was, that in the year 1450 the country was ripe for revolution. ...

— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous

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