Definition: alter from the original
Similar words: modify
Definition: make less severe or harsh or extreme
Usage: please modify this letter to make it more polite; he modified his views on same-gender marriage
Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint, cloud
Definition: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
Usage: sully someone's reputation
Similar words: deflower, impair, vitiate, mar, spoil
Definition: make imperfect
Usage: nothing marred her beauty
Synonyms: grease one's palms, corrupt, bribe, buy
Definition: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
Usage: This judge can be bought
Similar words: pay
Definition: give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
Usage: I paid four dollars for this sandwich; Pay the waitress, please
Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, corrupt, subvert, profane, misdirect, pervert, vitiate
Definition: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Usage: debauch the young people with wine and women; Socrates was accused of corrupting young men; Do school counselors subvert young children?; corrupt the morals
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: corrupt
Definition: lacking in integrity
Usage: humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation; a corrupt and incompetent city government
Similar words: corrupted, debased, vitiated
Definition: ruined in character or quality
Similar words: venal, bribable, purchasable, corruptible, dishonest
Definition: capable of being corrupted
Usage: corruptible judges; dishonest politicians; a purchasable senator; a venal police officer
Similar words: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate
Definition: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
Usage: depraved criminals; a perverted sense of loyalty; the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
Definition: unethical or dishonest
Usage: dirty police officers; a sordid political campaign
Similar words: Praetorian, Pretorian
Definition: characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
Usage: a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
Similar words: putrid
Definition: morally corrupt or evil
Usage: the putrid atmosphere of the court
Similar words: sold-out
Definition: having taken a bribe or bribes
Usage: a sold-out politician
Definition: touched by rot or decay
Usage: tainted bacon; `corrupt' is archaic
Similar words: stale
Definition: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
Usage: stale bread; the beer was stale
Definition: containing errors or alterations
Usage: a corrupt text; spoke a corrupted version of the language
Similar words: imperfect
Definition: not perfect; defective or inadequate
Usage: had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities; imperfect mortals; drainage here is imperfect
Definition: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Similar words: sneaky, underhand, underhanded
Definition: marked by deception
Usage: achieved success in business only by underhand methods