corruption
/kəˈrʌpʃən/
noun
- Dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by people in positions of power, such as accepting bribes.
- Many countries have strict laws to fight political corruption.
- The mayor was arrested on charges of corruption after taking money from contractors.
- Corruption in the police department made it impossible to get a fair investigation.
- The act of making something morally bad or the state of being morally bad.
- The corruption of the young prince by his greedy advisors was a tragedy.
- Some people believe that wealth leads to moral corruption.
- The novel explores the gradual corruption of an honest man by power.
- Damage or changes made to data, files, or computer systems that make them unusable or incorrect.
- Always back up your work to prevent corruption from power outages.
- Data corruption during the transfer made the image look like static.
- A virus caused the corruption of all the files on my hard drive.
- A changed form of a word or phrase, especially one that has become standard through error or misuse.
- Some dialects contain corruptions of older English words.
- The name 'Cairo' in Illinois is a corruption of the original Native American name.
- The word 'okay' may be a corruption of the Choctaw phrase 'okeh'.
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