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corruption - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | crime, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fraud, graft, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, payoff, payola*, racket*, shuffle, squeeze*, venality, breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crookedness, fiddling, fraudulency, jobbery, on the take, profiteering, shadiness, shady deal, skimming, unscrupulousness |
| Antonyms: | decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baseness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, decadence, degradation, depravity, evil, impurity, infamy, iniquity, perversion, turpitude, vice, vulgarity, wickedness, degeneration, immorality, looseness, lubricity, profligacy, sinfulness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | debasement, decay, defilement, distortion, infection, pollution, rot, doctoring, falsification, foulness, noxiousness, putrefaction, putrescence, rottenness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purification, purity, sterility, cleanness, pureness |
| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, brutality, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, misuse, solecism, catachresis, localism, malapropism, misusage, primitive culture, provincialism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bane, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe, blot on the landscape, fungus, infestation |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | cancer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | malignant growth |
| Synonyms: | canker, corruption, disease, malignancy, sickness, tumor, C*, big C*, carcinoma, long illness |
| Antonyms: | benignity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blistered infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, sore, ulcer, smutch |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, disease, epidemic, filth, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, pollution, taint, dirtying, foulness, poisoning, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Notes: | crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, decay, decline, degeneracy, degradation, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, declension, degeneration, devolution, gluttony, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | humility, morality |
| Main Entry: | decomposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rot, breakdown |
| Synonyms: | corruption, decay, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, division, atomization, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity |
| Antonyms: | combination, development, growth, improvement |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, buckle, contortion, corruption, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, injury, irregularity, knot, malformation, ugliness, warp, asymmetry, crookedness, grossness, hideousness, impairment, malconformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | disgrace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of shame; bad reputation |
| Synonyms: | abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye*, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, debasement, defamation, degradation, derision, discredit, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality, culpability, debasing, disbarment, disesteem, humbling, ill repute, ingloriousness |
| Antonyms: | esteem, exaltation, honor, respect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, curse, debauchery, depravity, diablerie, harm, hatred, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, lewdness, malevolence, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, ruin, sin, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing, criminality, devilry, diabolism, heinousness, knavery, licentiousness, looseness, malignity, perversity, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, refuse, sediment, sewage, silt, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, crud, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, rottenness, sleaze, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | foul play |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treacherous action |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, dirty work, felony, fraud, lawbreaking, murder, violence, wrong, bad deed, cruel act, dirty trick, funny business |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, grime, pestilence, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, foreign matter, poisoning, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | infection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contamination |
| Synonyms: | bug*, communicability, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, defilement, disease, epidemic, flu, germs, impurity, insanitation, poison, pollution, septicity, virus, what's going around |
| Antonyms: | sanitation, sterility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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