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Impairment of virtue and moral principles
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corruption
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Corruption is a form of dishonest or unethical conduct by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement , though it may also involve practices ...
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n. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [syn: corruptness ] [ant: incorruptness ] in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putrescence , putridness , rottenness ] decay of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a corruption scandal (= involving illegal payments ) ▪ a major police corruption scandal allegations of corruption/fraud/misconduct etc ▪ Mr Singh has strongly denied the allegations of sexual harassment. bribery and ...
Usage examples of corruption.
Greeks might be justly foreseen, he adopts the two effectual methods of corruption and education.
Originally it was a corruption of a term expressing enmity or contempt, applied to a part of the plains tribes by the forest-dwelling Algonquian Indians.
Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.
The barrelhouse was such a den of corruption she could not see how she was ever to escape it.
The stench of rotting meat flowed forth from the heart of the tree, now a nest of the blackest corruption.
Chain one who lives, and breathes this boundless air, To the corruption of a closed grave!
Almost every resident in the country has a carriage they call a carryall, which name I suspect to be a corruption of the cariole so often mentioned in the pretty Canadian story of Emily Montagu.
It was the same with Chito Valle, the ex-prefect ofLa Paz, who was fired from parliament for corruption.
Second, we should understand corruption also in metaphysical terms: where the entity and essence, effectiveness and value, do not find common satisfaction, there develops not generation but corruption.
Throughout his reading of Polybius in the Discourses, Machiavelli insists on the necessity that the Republic expand so as not to fall into corruption.
From top to bottom, corruption, absenteeism and featherbedding were rampant.
The rivers of crimson corruption suddenly stopped their flows, freezing in place.
Xandria, despite its vastness in human terms, of any significant size by comparison with the extent of the recently fallen empire of the drago mites Perhaps Fraxinus was wrong to see this happening as an opportunity, Andris thought, as he guided his stolen but ever- faithful mare around a sticky pit of black corruption.
For while we are well aware of our mortality, your Greeklings believe that you are a god, even if we well know that you are mortal and subject to human corruption.
Their language today was basically a corruption of English, although it included much of the noncommon languages of the early settlers, including Hindi, Urdu, Ibo, Arabic, Amharic, Bantu, and Flemish, to name some of them.