Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.

synonym: corruptness.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... show more

Roget 940: improbity^†; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace etc. (disrepute) 874; fraud etc. (deception) 545; lying etc. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides [Lat.], Punica fides [Lat.]; infidelity; faithlessness etc. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.    breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition^†, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy etc. (tergiversation) 607; nonobservance etc. 773.    shabbiness etc. adj.; villainy, villany^†; baseness etc. adj.; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.    perfidy; perfidiousness etc. adj.; treachery, double dealing; unfairness etc. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor etc. (flattery) 933.    ... show more

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity^†; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature^†.    visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.    delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy^†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus^†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.    taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity^†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.    sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume^†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus^†, sphacelation^†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.    fever, temperature, calenture^†; inflammation.    ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera^†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia^†, blennorrhoea^†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke^†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever^†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche^†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem^†, enanthema^†; erysipelas; exanthem^†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps^†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis^†, pneumonia, psora^†, pyaemia^†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis^†, ringworm, rubeola, St.    Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma^†, syntexis^†, tetanus, tetter^†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis^†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.    fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.    [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503.    martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary^†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.    [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology^†.    [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter^†; cattle plague, glanders^†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.    [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.    [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus.    [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus.    [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV.    ... show more

Roget 49: decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption etc. (uncleanness) 653; dispersion etc. 73; disjunction etc. 44; disintegration.    ... show more

Dutch: verbastering
Polish: skorumpowanie

In a state of progressive putrefaction.

synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness.

Roget 653: uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity^†, immundicity^†; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; defoedation^†; soilure^†, soiliness^†; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture^†; fetor etc. 401^†.    decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo^†.    slovenry^†; slovenliness etc. adj.; squalor.    dowdy, drab, slut, malkin^†, slattern, sloven, slammerkin^†, slammock^†, slummock^†, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark^†, dust-man, sweep; beast.    dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff^†; sossle^†, sozzle^†.    sordes^†, dregs, grounds, lees; argol^†; sediment, settlement heeltap^†; dross, drossiness^†; mother^†, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.    recrement^†, slag; scum, froth.    hogwash; ditchwater^†, dishwater, bilgewater^†; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings^†, outscourings^†; off scum; caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff^†; scurf, scurfiness^†; exuviae [Lat.], morphea; fur, furfur^†; dandruff, tartar.    riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch^†.    mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.].    spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery^†; garbage, carrion; excreta etc. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria^†; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.    dunghill, colluvies^†, mixen^†, midden, bog, laystall^†, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess^†, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.    sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable^†, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.    ... show more

Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).

Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles:
— The luxury and corruption among the upper classes.

synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction.

Roget 945: vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness etc. adj.; iniquity, peccability^†, demerit; sin, Adam^†; old Adam^†, offending Adam^†.    immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy^†, dophagy^†, exophagy^†; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity^†, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality etc. (malevolence) 907; corruption etc. (debasement) 659; knavery etc. (improbity) 940^†; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.    infirmity; weakness etc. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.    lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den^†; gusto picaresco [It].    fault, crime; criminality etc. (guilt) 947.    sinner etc. 949.    [Resorts] brothel etc. 961; gambling house etc. 621; joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.    ... show more

Roget 659: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession etc. 287; retrogradation etc. 283^†; decrease etc. 36.    degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity etc. 945; demoralization, retrogression; masochism.    impairment, inquination^†, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration^†, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath^†; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation^†, poisoning, venenation^†, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.    decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency^†; falling off etc. v.; caducity^†, decrepitude.    decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus^†, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement etc. (destruction). 162; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron^†; vinefretter^†, vinegrub^†.    wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra [Lat.]; jade, plug, rackabones [U.S.], skate [U.S.]; tackey^†, tacky [U.S.].    ... show more

Dutch: corruptie
Polish: rozkład, staczanie się, upadek, rozkład moralny, zepsucie, degrengolada

Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity:
— Corruption of a minor.

synonym: subversion.

Polish: deprawacja, demoralizacja

Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony).