corruption

美[kə'rʌpʃn] 英[kə'rʌpʃn]

n. 贪污；堕落；腐败

近义词：dishonesty，depravity，degeneracy，exploitation，sleaze，bribery，fraud，venality，perversion，immorality，harm，debasement，vice，putridness，putrescence，subversion，depravation，putrefaction，corruptness，rottenness，

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Noun

lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
in a state of progressive putrefaction
decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
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"
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"
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"

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Accusations of corruption have been made against him.对他贪污的控告已经提出。
Corruption and bribery are mean.贪污行贿是可鄙的。
An odor of corruption hangs about him.他浑身散发着腐化堕落的气味。
Corruption and crime go hand in hand.腐败与犯罪携手并行。
The newspapers blasted the political corruption.报纸对政治腐败加以强烈谴责。

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