- Types Of Speech
- You can use corruption as a noun in a sentence.
- About Corruption
- A 3 syllables noun and 10 letters with the letters c, i, n, o, p, r, t, and u, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters up. Corruption starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters c, co, cor, corr, corru, and the ending characters are n, on, ion, tion, ption, . Corruption is also a double consonant (rr) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- Origin/Roots
- French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, corruption has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are corrupt, and ion.
- School Grade
- Corruption is set as a sat word that starts with c, ends with n, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Corruption in Pig Latin is said as "orruptioncay or orruptioncway".
- Unigram
- c | o | r | r | u | p | t | i | o | n
- Bigram
- co | or | rr | ru | up | pt | ti | io | on
- Trigram
- cor | orr | rru | rup | upt | pti | tio | ion
- Quadrigram
- corr | orru | rrup | rupt | upti | ptio | tion
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony);
"he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering" - destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty;
undermining moral integrity;
"corruption of a minor";
"the big city's subversion of rural innocence" - moral perversion;
impairment of virtue and moral principles;
"the luxury and corruption among the upper classes";
"moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration";
"its brothels;
its opium parlors;
its depravity" - lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery);
use of a position of trust for dishonest gain - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abandon | the trait of lacking restraint or control freedom from inhibition or worry "she danced with abandon" |
| Abandonment | withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" |
| Abjection | |
| Abomination | an action that is vicious or vile an action that arouses disgust or abhorence "his treatment of the children is an abomination" |
| Abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment |
| Abuse Of Terms | |
| Acrostic | verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message |
| Adulteration | the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) |
| Ailment | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease a cause for complaining |
| Alienation | the action of alienating the action of causing to become unfriendly "his behavior alienated the other students" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Corruption
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Corruption | inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony) "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering" |
View English words with the unique letters used in corruption. Words With The Letters Cinoprtu
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Inducement | act of bringing about a desired result "inducement of sleep" |
| Inducing | act of bringing about a desired result "inducement of sleep" |
Corruption Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With C
- Ends With N
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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