corruption

I noun abuse of public trust, act of bribing, act of profiteering, baseness, breach of faith, breach of trust, bribery, complicity, conduct involving graft, corrupt inducement, corruptela, corruptibility, corruptio, crime, criminality, debasement, deception, depravatio, deviation from rectitude, deviousness, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, disloyalty, disrepute, feloniousness, fraudulence, fraudulency, graft, illegality, improbity, indirection, injustice, jobbery, knavery, lack of conscience, lack of principle, lack of probity, malignancy, obliquity, perfidiousness, perfidy, perversion of integrity, scoundrelism, turpitude, unscrupulousness, venality, villainousness, villainy, want of principle, wickedness associated concepts: corruption in public office foreign phrases:

- Corruptio optimi est pessima. — The corruption of the best is worst.

- Maledicta est expositio quae corrumpit textum. — It is a cursed interpretation which corrupts the text

II index bad repute, bribery, crime, decline, defilement, delict, delinquency (misconduct), deterioration, detriment, dishonesty, dissolution (disintegration), graft, gratuity (bribe), guilt, improbity, knavery, malfeasance, misusage, nepotism, perversion, pettifoggery, racket, seduction, spoilage, turpitude, vice