corruption

Definition

  • noun: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers)
  • noun: impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: taint, putrefaction, adulteration

Examples

  • The phrase “an apron” is a 'corruption' of the original English phrase “a napron.”

  • computer software that is supposed to prevent the 'corruption' of files

  • There are rumors of widespread 'corruption' in the city government.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption... ...for thousands of years. We sacked Rome. Loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. (..)
    2005 Batman Begins