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inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
e.g. he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
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destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty
undermining moral integrity
e.g. corruption of a minor
e.g. the big city's subversion of rural innocence
Synonym: subversion
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moral perversion
impairment of virtue and moral principles
e.g. the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
e.g. moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
e.g. its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
e.g. Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Synonym: degeneracy depravation depravity putrefaction
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lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)
use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
Synonym: corruptness
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decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
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in a state of progressive putrefaction
Synonym: putrescence putridness rottenness
英语释义
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n. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
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n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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n. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
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n. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)