Corruption Definition & Meaning
corruption
- noun
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- 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"
- 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"
- 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" in song lyrics
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"I'm tired of the brutality and all the corruption"
Capital-X — Revolutionary -
"With physical evidence, the world, full of corruption"
C-Murder — Like a Jungle -
"Wu was under investigation, cases filled with corruption"
Dom Pachino — Man on Fire
Words that rhyme with corruption
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- What does corruption mean?
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain in a state of progressive putrefaction decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) 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
- What part of speech is corruption?
- Corruption is a noun.
- How many definitions does corruption have?
- Corruption has 6 definitions across 1 part of speech (noun).