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English to English noun
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lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain |  | source: wordnet30
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in a state of progressive putrefaction | | source: wordnet30
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decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) | | source: wordnet30
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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | | Example: 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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destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | | Example: corruption of a minor
the big city's subversion of rural innocence
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inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony) | | Example: he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
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The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. | | source: webster1913
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