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corruption
inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
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noun
inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
“he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering”
noun
destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
“corruption of a minor”
noun
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
“the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”
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
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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
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