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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power of corrupting, tainting, depraving, or vitiating.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Tending to corrupt.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective tending to corrupt or pervert

Etymologies

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corrupt +‎ -ive

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