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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, fraud, fraudulency, graft, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, unscrupulousness, venality |
| Antonyms: | decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | debasement, decay, defilement, distortion, doctoring, falsification, foulness, infection, noxiousness, pollution, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, rottenness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, purification, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrong use |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | cancer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | malignant growth |
| Synonyms: | C, big C, canker, carcinoma, corruption, disease, long illness, malignancy, sickness, tumor |
| Antonyms: | benignity |
| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blistered infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, smutch, sore, ulcer |
| 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, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
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