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corruption

noun as in adulteration

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She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

Islamic State brought “peace, autonomy, zero corruption, low crime-rate,” he Tweeted last month.

The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price.

Both Rezko and Blagojevich have since been convicted on unrelated federal corruption charges.

The ruling also cleared Mubarak along with his sons, Alaa and Gamal, of corruption charges relating to the sale of gas to Israel.

The mangled bodies were hurried to the catacombs, and thrown into an indiscriminate heap of corruption.

One of them was the late Secretary of the Treasury, Guy, who had been turned out of his place for corruption.

In Castile was ostentatiously displayed and lavishly spent great fortunes made in remote provinces by oppression and corruption.

Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin ambages, or the singular ablative ambage?

Amid the disintegration of society it was the sole conservative element—the salt which preserved it from corruption.

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On this page you'll find 161 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to corruption, such as: bribery, crime, exploitation, extortion, fraud, and graft.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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