Corruption

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).

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• Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Quite late in his life he began a series of outspoken criticisms of the corruption of the clergy and the unwisdom of the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It almost supersedes the Bible-' 'Yes--Flux of Corruption,' said the Russian, 'I remember that phrase. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She would not betray her trust, I suppose, without bribery and corruption, for she really did know where her friend was to be found. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What we should use, we let him abuse, and the corruption of the best things, as Hume remarked, produces the worst. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It promised that it would stop this evil practice, drive out corruption here, and prosecute this-and-that offense. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was supposed to have died in battle, but ten days afterwards his body was found untouched by corruption and sent home for burial. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Presently a smoke rose about our feet--a smoke that smelled of all the dead things of earth, of all the putrefaction and corruption imaginable. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moan for mine! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mary Anne laid down her work, rose, hooked herself behind, as being under catechization, and replied: 'No, it is a corruption, Miss Peecher. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What are these corruptions? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He fell early under the spell of Rousseau; he developed sensibility and a scorn for the corruptions of civilization. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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