Synonyms: corruption
Definition: inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
Usage: he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
Similar words: inducement, inducing
Definition: act of bringing about a desired result
Usage: inducement of sleep
Synonyms: corruption, subversion
Definition: destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
Usage: corruption of a minor; the big city's subversion of rural innocence
Similar words: debasement, degradation
Definition: changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
Synonyms: putrefaction, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption
Definition: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Usage: the luxury and corruption among the upper classes; moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration; its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity; Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Similar words: immorality
Definition: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
Usage: the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction
Synonyms: corruption, corruptness
Definition: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
Similar words: dishonesty
Definition: the quality of being dishonest
Synonyms: corruption
Definition: decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
Similar words: decay
Definition: the process of gradually becoming inferior
Synonyms: rottenness, putrescence, putridness, corruption
Definition: in a state of progressive putrefaction
Similar words: putrefaction, rot
Definition: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor