moral+corruption

  • 21corruption — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abjection, abomination, abuse of terms, acrostic, adulteration, alienation, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, antiphrasis, atrocity, bad, bane, barbarism, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 22Moral liberty — Liberty Lib er*ty (l[i^]b [ e]r*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Liberties} ( t[i^]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[ e], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 23corruption — /keuh rup sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt. 2. moral perversion; depravity. 3. perversion of integrity. 4. corrupt or dishonest proceedings. 5. bribery. 6. debasement or alteration, as of language or a text. 7. a… …

    Universalium

  • 24corruption — noun a) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross… …

    Wiktionary

  • 25corruption — n. 1 moral deterioration, esp. widespread. 2 use of corrupt practices, esp. bribery or fraud. 3 a irregular alteration (of a text, language, etc.) from its original state. b an irregularly altered form of a word. 4 decomposition, esp. of a corpse …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 26moral turpitude — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abjection, baseness, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 27corruption — noun Date: 14th century 1. a. impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle ; depravity b. decay, decomposition c. inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means (as …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 28corruption — cor•rup•tion [[t]kəˈrʌp ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the act of corrupting or the state of being corrupt 2) moral perversion; depravity 3) perversion of integrity 4) corrupt or dishonest proceedings 5) bribery 6) debasement or alteration, as of language or a… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 29corruption — /kəˈrʌpʃən / (say kuh rupshuhn) noun 1. the act of corrupting. 2. the state of being corrupt. 3. moral perversion; depravity. 4. perversion of integrity. 5. corrupt or dishonest proceedings. 6. bribery. 7. debasement, as of a language. 8. a… …

  • 30Aléa moral — Le néologisme[1] aléa moral, (ou moral hazard en anglais) désigne pour l économiste Adam Smith un effet pervers qui peut apparaître dans certaines situation de risque, dans une relation entre deux agents ou deux parties contractantes : c est …

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