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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181. He says drug corruption is now so prevalent that it has tainted the assembly, the courts, and press and television.
182. It is designed to halt vote-buying and corruption, attract better people to government and strengthen protection of human and civil rights.
183. Corbett gagged at the bitter-sweet smell of corruption and covered his mouth and nose with his cloak to prevent himself choking.
184. One of Murrow's chief campaign promises was to do something about bribery and corruption.
185. The investigation has penetrated every level of society on the island and involves allegations of corruption among government ministers.
186. Zhao was also accused of encouraging the spread of bourgeois liberalization and personal corruption.
187. The reasons they switched their allegiance included anxiety about globalisation, a rejection of political corruption and fear of immigration.
188. The spread of international crime and corruption constitutes a major threat to the global economy.
189. Hot or not: Good cast, good creative team; a suspense story about political corruption always seems to be topical.
190. Corruption especially hampered businesses, who were prohibited by law from offering bribes and faced penalties if they were discovered doing so.
191. Under the impact of soaring oil prices living standards collapsed in a welter of rationing and corruption.
192. Nano, imprisoned on what he insists were trumped-up corruption charges, was freed as the disorders heated up.
193. The recent death sentence on a high-ranking official is cited as evidence that corruption is at last being taken seriously.
194. There will also be further reforms in the banking sector(sentencedict.com/corruption.html), plagued by corruption allegations.
195. Once again, there has been a corruption in the process of translation.
196. High unemployment, non-payment of state wages and pensions and official cronyism and corruption will all be election issues.
197. The society had become so perverted by power and corruption that honest people were considered to be stupid.
198. A dozen of the company's senior executives have been caught up in the country's ever-widening corruption scandal.
199. On Nov. 18 in a crackdown on corruption the government banned the heads of state structures from commercial activities.
200. Anti-corruption investigators have noted growing corruption problems in El Paso.
201. But he brushed aside charges that government overspending(sentencedict.com), corruption and its seizure of farms are to blame.
202. Generals Roh and Chun now face charges of corruption and of allegedly masterminding a 1979 coup that brought them to power.
203. He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power.
204. We talked about the corruption in Moscow, about how poor we were in Yakutsk.
205. Last weekend officials formally registered a corruption case against him.
206. Crudely expressed, corruption was of the political essence and was the practical counterpoint to the constitutional theory of balance.
207. In their battle against public corruption, the Progressives slapped controls on everything they could.
208. The country's government has been accused of corruption and abuse of power.
209. The play is about the gradual corruption of a scientist.
210. The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption.
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.