v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"

v. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

adj. lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"

adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

v. inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

v. alter with the intention to deceive

v. cause to lose or change color; "The detergent discolored my shirts"

v. move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"

v. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

v. produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"

v. make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"

v. lose color or turn colorless; "The painting discolored"

v. add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

v. incite to commit a crime or an evil deed; "He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife"

v. decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"

v. obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"

v. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"

v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

v. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night"

v. enjoy oneself; "it's your birthday, so let's live it up!"

v. have or participate in a party; "The students were partying all night before the exam"

v. spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"

v. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

v. cause to be ashamed

v. give false or misleading information to

v. remove the consecration from a person or an object

v. induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"

v. lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

v. set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations"

v. make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"

v. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

v. destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

adj. capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. exceedingly harmful

adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

adj. (used of a mammal) born

adj. mixed with impurities

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

adj. not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law"

adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

adj. illegitimate

adj. having the nature of vice

adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

adj. having the purity corrupted; made unclean; "the defiled Temple"

adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

adj. not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

adj. not exact

adj. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

adj. lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"

adj. morally bad in principle or practice

adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

adj. not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"

adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

adj. having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"

adj. imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

adj. contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters"

adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"

adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"

adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"

adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"

adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

v. bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

v. to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

adj. free of corruption or immorality; "a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible"

adj. characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"

adj. without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs"

adj. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"

adj. having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"

adj. having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; "a worthy fellow"; "no student deemed worthy, and chosen for admission, would be kept out for lack of funds"- Nathan Pusey; "worthy of acclaim"; "worthy of consideration"; "a worthy cause"

adj. "honest wages for an honest day's work"

adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"