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corruption
 
NOUN:1. A term that offends against established usage standards: barbarism, solecism, vulgarism. See STYLE. 2. Degrading, immoral acts or habits: bestiality, depravity, flagitiousness, immorality, perversion, turpitude, vice, villainousness, villainy, wickedness. See CLEAN. 3. Departure from what is legally, ethically, and morally correct: corruptness, dishonesty, improbity. Informal : crookedness. See HONEST.
 
 
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