The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on.
The decomposition of biological matter.
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing.
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
A generally accepted concept of the philosophical system of legal and moral principles purportedly deriving from a natural or divine justice and not from a position of positive law but of ideas of right and wrong.
An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.
Law of nature, relating to natural phenomena.