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- Definition
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- corruption :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
- corruption :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
- corruption :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
- corruption :lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- corruption :in a state of progressive putrefaction
- corruption :decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)