Synonym: corruptness, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction, putrescence, putridness, rottenness, subversion. Similar words: correlation, interrupt, option, adoption, perception, reception, exception, assumption. Meaning: [-pʃn] 
n. 1. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain 2. in a state of progressive putrefaction 3. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) 4. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles 5. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity 6. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony).
n. 1. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain 2. in a state of progressive putrefaction 3. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) 4. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles 5. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity 6. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony). 
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61. It is a country where corruption is rife.
62. The official corruption discontented the people.
63. Claims of corruption within the police force were denied.
64. They were accused of self-seeking and corruption.
65. They fled the country, amid accusations of corruption.
66. The corruption allegations proved false.
67. Corruption is endemic in the system.
68. Rumours of corruption and scandal gathered pace .
69. Accusations of corruption have been made/brought/laid against him.
70. Charges of corruption have been levelled against him.
71. His administration now faces accusations of corruption.
72. The government has pledged itself to root out corruption.
73. Rumours of corruption dishonoured the senator.
74. We must avoid anything that savours of corruption.
75. Corruption and civil unrest had made the country ungovernable.
76. The whole business stank of corruption.
77. The review exposed widespread corruption in the police force.
78. The organization was rife with bribery and corruption.
79. The word 'holiday' is a corruption of 'holy day'.
80. She was brought down by a corruption scandal.
81. We need to root out corruption at all levels.
82. Corruption in the police force is systemic.
83. He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption.
84. Several ministers were stripped of parliamentary immunity as a prelude to facing corruption charges.
85. He was arrested last December,[Sentencedict.com](www.Sentencedict.com) accused of corruption and misrule.
86. The mayor was elected on a promise to cleanse the city government of corruption.
87. A corruption scandals led to the fall of the government.
88. They were the principal shareholders in a bank riddled with corruption.
89. They regularly hold elections without a whiff of corruption or violence.
90. His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
More similar words: correlation, interrupt, option, adoption, perception, reception, exception, assumption, conception, description, consumption, prescription, corporation, corridor, correctly, correspondent, corresponding to, bumptious, notion, motion, nation, action, mention, section, question, fiction, auction, edition, portion, reaction.