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: decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration
Definition: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Similar words: degradation, abasement, abjection
Definition: a low or downcast state
Usage: each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement- H.L.Menchken