corruption

(n) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain corruptness,
(n) in a state of progressive putrefaction putrescence, putridness, rottenness,
(n) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
(n) 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
depravation, depravity, degeneracy, putrefaction,
(n) 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
subversion,
(n) 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

corruptness putrescence putridness rottenness depravation depravity degeneracy putrefaction subversion

incorruption incorruptness

corrupting corruptive