Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: corruption, corruptness
Definition: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
Main entry: corruption
Definition: decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
Main entry: rottenness, putrescence, putridness, corruption
Definition: in a state of progressive putrefaction