corruption

noun

1. 1

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

   he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

   the luxury and corruption among the upper classes

   moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration

4. 4

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

5. 5

   decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

6. 6

   in a state of progressive putrefaction