corruption

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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  subversion , degeneracy , depravation , depravity , putrefaction , putrescence , putridness , rottenness , corruptness
• Antonyms: 
  incorruptness , incorruption