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corruption
Synonyms and Antonyms of corruption
- the ancient Egyptians used special preservatives to spare their dead from complete corruption
- the corruption of the upper classes eventually led to the fall of the Roman empire
- Socrates was put to death because the ancient Athenians believed he was spreading corruption to their youth
bad, badness, blackness, evil, evildoing, ill, turpitude, villainy, wickedness, wrong
atrociousness, evilness, heinousness, sinfulness, unscrupulousness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness
devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness
corruptness, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, depravedness, dissoluteness, dissolution
indecency, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, wantonness
abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu)
criminality, reprehensibleness
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