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corrupt

• (a) lacking in integrity
  • humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation
  • a corrupt and incompetent city government
• (a) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive crooked,
• (s) containing errors or alterations
  • a corrupt text
  • spoke a corrupted version of the language
  corrupted,
• (s) touched by rot or decay
  • tainted bacon
  • "corrupt" is archaic
  tainted,

Verbs

• (v) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  • debauch the young people with wine and women
  • Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
  • Do school counselors subvert young children?
  • corrupt the morals
  debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate, subvert,
• (v) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
  • This judge can be bought
  bribe, grease one's palms, buy,
• (v) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
  • sully someone's reputation
  defile, sully, taint, cloud,
• (v) alter from the original spoil,

Synonyms

debase debauch demoralise demoralize deprave misdirect pervert profane vitiate subvert bribe grease one's palms buy crooked corrupted defile sully taint cloud spoil tainted

Antonyms

incorrupt square straight

See also

immoral dishonest dishonorable unlawful

Words of close approximity