corrupt (kəˈrʌpt
)
Definitions
adjective
- lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices ⇒
a corrupt official
corrupt practices in an election
- morally depraved
- putrid or rotten
- contaminated; unclean
- (of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations
- (of computer programs or data) containing errors
verb
- to become or cause to become dishonest or disloyal
- to debase or become debased morally; deprave
- (tr) to infect or contaminate; taint
- (tr) to cause to become rotten
- (tr) to alter (a text, manuscript, etc) from the original
- (tr) computing to introduce errors into (data or a program)
Alternative Forms
corˈrupter corˈruptor noun corˈruptive adjective corˈruptively adverb corˈruptly adverb corˈruptness nounWord Origin
C14: from Latin corruptus spoiled, from corrumpere to ruin, literally: break to pieces, from rumpere to breakSynonyms
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dishonest,
bent,
crooked,
rotten,
shady,
fraudulent,
unscrupulous,
unethical,
venal,
unprincipled,
bribable,
=
depraved,
abandoned,
vicious,
degenerate,
debased,
demoralized,
profligate,
dishonoured,
defiled,
dissolute,
=
contaminated,
infected,
decayed,
rotten,
polluted,
tainted,
defiled,
adulterated,
putrid,
putrescent,
Translations
- British English:
corrupt
A corrupt person behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing illegal things for money....corrupt politicians.kəˈrʌpt ADJECTIVE ...corrupt politicians.
- Spanish:
corrupto
adj corrupta
- French:
corrompu
adj
- German:
korrupt
adj
- Chinese: 腐败的 adj
- Arabic: فَاسِد adj
- Portuguese: corrupto adj corrupta
- Russian: порочный adj порочная
- Croatian: korumpiran adj korumpirana
- Czech: zkorumpovaný adj
- Danish: korrupt adj
- Dutch: corrupt adj
- Finnish: lahjottu adj
- Greek: διεφθαρμένος adj διεφθαρμένη
- Italian: corrotto adj corrotta
- Japanese: 腐敗した no_posp
- Korean: 타락한 adj
- Norwegian: korrupt adj
- Polish: skorumpowany adj skorumpowana
- Brazilian Portuguese: corrupto adj corrupta
- European Spanish:
corrupto
adj corrupta
- Swedish: korrumperad adj korrumperat
- Thai: ทุจริต adj
- Turkish: yozlaşmış adj
- Vietnamese: tham nhũng adj
Usage examples
Altering my work to comply with an arbitrary set of rules would be artistically corrupt.
, LOVE YOU MADLY (2002)Little satisfaction is to be had from watching a corrupt government use aid to feed its soldiers to keep the corrupt in power.
British Medical Journal (2002)Magill did not mean to imply any corrupt practices on Ms Harney's part.
Irish Times (2002)But to its many unionist critics, Sunningdale was a corrupt deal.
Belfast Telegraph (2003)Every day you and I go into war against an ensnaring world, a corrupt flesh and a busy devil.
, Diamonds in the Dust (1993)