Corruption
[kə'rʌpʃ(ə)n] or [kə'rʌpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'; 'Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction'.
(noun.) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).
Checked by Calvin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
(n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
(n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
(n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
Typist: Lottie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Putrefaction, putrescence.[2]. Defilement, contamination, pollution, infection, vitiation, adulteration, debasement.[3]. Depravity, depravation, wickedness, demoralization, immorality, laxity, looseness of morals, want of principle.
Checker: Quincy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness,defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination,putrefaction
ANT:Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration
Typed by Lena
Examples
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Quite late in his life he began a series of outspoken criticisms of the corruption of the clergy and the unwisdom of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It almost supersedes the Bible-' 'Yes--Flux of Corruption,' said the Russian, 'I remember that phrase. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What we should use, we let him abuse, and the corruption of the best things, as Hume remarked, produces the worst. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It promised that it would stop this evil practice, drive out corruption here, and prosecute this-and-that offense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was supposed to have died in battle, but ten days afterwards his body was found untouched by corruption and sent home for burial. Plato. The Republic.
- Presently a smoke rose about our feet--a smoke that smelled of all the dead things of earth, of all the putrefaction and corruption imaginable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moan for mine! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mary Anne laid down her work, rose, hooked herself behind, as being under catechization, and replied: 'No, it is a corruption, Miss Peecher. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What are these corruptions? Plato. The Republic.
- He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He fell early under the spell of Rousseau; he developed sensibility and a scorn for the corruptions of civilization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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