Antonyms for corrupt
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : kuh-ruhpt |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈrʌpt |
- adorn
- aid
- approve
- assist
- beautify
- benefit
- better
- bless
- boost
- build
- chasten
- cherish
- clean
- cleanse
- commend
- compliment
- cure
- decent
- decorate
- develop
- dignify
- elevate
- embellish
- enhance
- esteem
- ethical
- exalt
- favor
- flourish
- good
- grow
- heal
- help
- helpful
- high
- honest
- honor
- honorable
- ignore
- improve
- increase
- kind
- laud
- mend
- moral
- neglect
- noble
- obey
- ornament
- please
- praise
- preserve
- principled
- protect
- pure
- purified
- purify
- raise
- repair
- respect
- respectable
- save
- sound
- strengthen
- treat well
- trustworthy
- truthful
- uncorrupt
- upgrade
- upright
- virtuous
- wholesome
Definition of corrupt
Origin :- mid-14c., from Old French corropt "unhealthy, corrupt; uncouth" (of language), and directly from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere "to destroy; spoil," figuratively "corrupt, seduce, bribe," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + rup-, past participle stem of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). Related: Corruptly; corruptness.
- adj dishonest
- adj debased, vicious
- adj adulterated, rotten
- verb pervert; pollute
- Nevertheless, we will have it done, lest their bad example should corrupt the other hogs.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Halloway is honest and clean, at least, while McCune is corrupt to the bone.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- I "run down" the accountant because he was either ignorant or corrupt.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- The earth is corrupt, science only serves to show its rottenness.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- Art cannot claim to be on a level with philosophy or religion, and may often corrupt them.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Do you not say that, by teaching these things, I corrupt the youth?
- Extract from : « Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates » by Plato
- Three higher principles may be brought to bear on all these corrupt natures.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- These are the lessons by which I corrupt the youth, as you say.
- Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
- But either I do not corrupt them, or I corrupt them unintentionally; and on either view of the case you lie.
- Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
Synonyms for corrupt
- abandoned
- abase
- abased
- abuse
- adulterate
- altered
- animalize
- baneful
- base
- bastardize
- bent
- blemish
- blight
- boorish
- bribable
- bribe
- contaminate
- contaminated
- crooked
- damage
- debase
- debauch
- debauched
- decay
- decayed
- decompose
- deface
- defile
- defiled
- deform
- degenerate
- degrade
- degraded
- deleterious
- demean
- demoralize
- deprave
- depraved
- depreciate
- despoil
- disfigure
- disgrace
- dishonor
- dishonored
- dissolute
- distorted
- doctored
- double-dealing
- evil
- exploiting
- extortionate
- faithless
- falsified
- fast and loose
- fix
- fixed
- flagitious
- foul
- fraudulent
- gone to the dogs
- grease palm
- harm
- hurt
- ill-treat
- impair
- inconstant
- infamous
- infect
- infected
- iniquitous
- injure
- knavish
- loose
- low
- lower
- lure
- maltreat
- mar
- mercenary
- miscreant
- mistreat
- misuse
- monstrous
- nefarious
- noxious
- on the take
- open
- outrage
- padded
- perfidious
- perverse
- polluted
- praetorian
- profiteering
- profligate
- pull down
- putrefy
- putrescent
- putrid
- racket up
- ravage
- reduce
- reprobate
- rot
- rotten
- ruin
- shady
- snide
- spoil
- square
- stain
- suborn
- suborned
- subvert
- taint
- tainted
- treacherous
- two-faced
- underhanded
- undermine
- unethical
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- violate
- vitiate
- warp
- waste
- wide open
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