corruption

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This condition of the world can be expressed satirically by a personal, informal satire which recognizes and dramatizes just how universal the corruption is and how commonplace its manifestations have become.

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  1. noun The act or process of corrupting.
  2. noun The state of being corrupt.
  3. noun Decay; rot.
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  • In 1753 Morelly published a prose poem called the Basiliade, describing the corruption of manners introduced by the errors of the lawgiver, and pointing out how this corruption is to be amended by return to the empire of nature and truth. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
  • And I agree with you, part of the corruption is the increasing tyranny of the majority over the minority. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Speaking in Kano, the Governor stressed that the government hopes to be guided by an appropriate blueprint for the realisation of good governance, while warning that the state government policy to check the corruption is always ready to dealt with anyone caught. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Mr. Gates and Adm. Mullen detailed an array of worrisome dynamics in Afghanistan, from persistent shortages of Western military personnel to what they described as the corruption and ineffectiveness of the fragile Afghan government. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • In my French Louisiana family, we pocked eggs, pock being a corruption of pâques, the French word for Easter. —  2theadvocate.com Latest News
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  1. from Middle English corrupcion, corrupcioun, corupcion = Dutch corruptie = Danish korruption, from Old French corruption, corrupcion, French corruption = Provencal corrupcio = Spanish corrupcion = Portuguese corrupção = Italian corruzione, from Latin corruptio(n-), conruptio(n-), from corrumpcre, past participle corruptus, corrupt: see corrupt, v.
 

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