English dictionary
corruption
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
noun
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
noun
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
noun
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
noun
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
noun
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
Example sentences
he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
corruption of a minor
the big city's subversion of rural innocence
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