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

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

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

corrupt, corrupted

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

suborn

v. induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses"

specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit

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

buy

v. acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"

make

v. compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"

damage

v. suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

discolor

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

streak

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

streak, blotch, mottle

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

pollute, foul, contaminate

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

stain

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

spot, fleck, blob, blot

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

discolor

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

oxidize, oxidise, oxidate

v. add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

unwholesome

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

bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

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"

bad

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

immoral

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent

adj. exceedingly harmful

insidious, pernicious, subtle

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

evil

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

crooked, corrupt

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

corruptive, perversive, pestiferous

adj. tending to corrupt or pervert

blemished, flawed

adj. having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an irregular pair of jeans"

broken

adj. discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"

defective, faulty

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

incorrupt

adj. free of corruption or immorality

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