corrupting

Thân thiện

A corrupting influence can spread through a community like a disease.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • That infects or taints: Having the quality of causing something pure or honest to become spoiled, dishonest, or morally unsound.
   • Harmful to the mind or morals: Exerting a negative influence that can damage ethical principles, integrity, or character.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • The corrupting influence of power can lead even good people to make unethical decisions.
  • Parents were concerned about the corrupting messages in some of the music their children listened to.
  • He was accused of accepting corrupting gifts from lobbyists.

Advanced Usage

• "Corrupting power": Refers to the idea that power itself can cause moral decay.

  • Many philosophers have written about the corrupting power of absolute authority.

• "Corrupting effect": Describes the negative impact or consequence that spoils something.

  • The constant exposure to violence had a corrupting effect on the young man's worldview.

Variants and Related Words

• Corrupt (verb): To cause to become dishonest or immoral; to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions.
  • The official was corrupted by greed.
• Corrupt (adjective): Willing to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain; morally depraved.
  • The corrupt politician was finally arrested.
• Corruption (noun): Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power; the action of making someone or something morally depraved.
  • The investigation uncovered widespread corruption in the department.

Synonyms

• Debasing: Lowering in character, quality, or value.
• Demoralizing: Causing someone to lose confidence or hope; corrupting morally.
• Pernicious: Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
• Subversive: Seeking or intended to undermine an established system or institution.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• A corrupting influence: A person or thing that leads others into immoral or dishonest behavior.
  • The older gang members were a corrupting influence on the younger boys.
• The corrupting nature of...: Used to describe the inherent tendency of something (e.g., power, wealth) to cause moral decay.
  • The novel explores the corrupting nature of unchecked ambition.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. that infects or taints
2. harmful to the mind or morals
   • corrupt judges and their corrupting influence
   • the vicious and degrading cult of violence
3. seducing into corrupt practices

Từ đồng nghĩa

• contaminating
• degrading