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corruption

n. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"

corruption

n. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

corruptness

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

depravity, degeneracy

n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

putrescence, rottenness, putridness

n. in a state of progressive putrefaction

degeneration

n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

diminution, decline

n. change toward something smaller or lower

deterioration, worsening, decline in quality

n. process of changing to an inferior state

regression

n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

impiety, impiousness

n. unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

corruption, depravity, degeneracy

n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

profanity

n. vulgar or irreverent speech or action

profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege

n. blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"

baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability

n. unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

wickedness, vileness, nefariousness

n. the quality of being wicked

wickedness, sin, sinfulness

n. estrangement from god

orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

n. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

fall

n. a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"

shame, disgrace, ignominy

n. a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"

devastation, ruin, desolation

n. the state of being decayed or destroyed

impiety, impiousness

n. unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

corruption, corruptness

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

profanity

n. vulgar or irreverent speech or action

profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege

n. blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"

poison

n. anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"

villainy, villainousness

n. the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior

contamination, taint

n. the state of being contaminated

pollution

n. undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

nastiness, foulness, filth, filthiness

n. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

decline

n. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

impairment, deterioration

n. a symptom of reduced quality or strength

incorruptness, incorruption

n. characterized by integrity or probity

morality

n. concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

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