corruption
noun
[ kəˈrʌpʃ(ə)n ]
• dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
• "the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places"
Similar:
dishonesty,
dishonest dealings,
unscrupulousness,
deceit,
deception,
duplicity,
double-dealing,
fraud,
fraudulence,
misconduct,
lawbreaking,
crime,
criminality,
delinquency,
wrongdoing,
villainy,
bribery,
bribing,
subornation,
venality,
graft,
extortion,
jobbery,
profiteering,
payola,
crookedness,
shadiness,
sleaze,
palm-greasing,
malfeasance,
misfeasance,
knavery,
malversation,
• the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased.
• "a record of a word's corruption"
Similar:
alteration,
falsification,
doctoring,
manipulation,
manipulating,
fudging,
adulteration,
debasement,
degradation,
abuse,
subversion,
misrepresentation,
misapplication,
vitiation,
• the process of decay; putrefaction.
• "the potato turned black and rotten with corruption"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin corruptio(n- ), from corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’ (see corrupt).
