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Defenition of the word corruption

    • Defenition of the word corruption

      • The destruction of data as a result of imperfections in software, storage or transmission processes.
      • The practice of unlawful or improper use of influence or power.
      • destroying someone's honesty or loyalty or moral integrity: "corruption of a minor"
      • decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
      • moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
      • lack of integrity or honesty; esp susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
      • in a state of progressive putrefaction
      • inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
      • destroying someone''s (or some group''s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city''s subversion of rural innocence"
      • moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
      • lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
      • inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
      • destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
      • moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

    Synonyms for the word corruption

      • corruptness
      • degeneracy
      • depravity
      • putrescence
      • putridness
      • rottenness

    Hyponyms for the word corruption

      • infection
      • jobbery
      • venality

    Hypernyms for the word corruption

      • debasement
      • decay
      • degradation
      • dishonesty
      • immorality
      • inducement
      • inducing
      • putrefaction
      • rot

    Antonyms for the word corruption

      • incorruption
      • incorruptness

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