Corrupt
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

BUY
Acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"

4 letters

EVIL
Morally objectionable behavior

BENT
A special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it"

WARP
A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

5 letters

CLOUD
A group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"

SULLY
French statesman (1560-1641)

BRIBE
Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

SPOIL
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

VENAL
Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

TAINT
The state of being contaminated

6 letters

POISON
Administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

DEBASE
Lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

SLEAZE
Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

DEFILE
Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"

ROTTEN
Having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"

SEDUCE
Lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor"

SORDID
Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

7 letters

DEBASED
Ruined in character or quality

TAINTED
Touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

DEBAUCH
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

PERVERT
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

PROFANE
Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

SUBVERT
Cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"

CROOKED
Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

IMMORAL
Deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

DEGRADE
Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

VITIATE
Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"

DEPRAVE
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

POLLUTE
Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

8 letters

DEPRAVED
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

DECADENT
A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)

9 letters

DISHONEST
Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

CORRUPTED
Ruined in character or quality

MISDIRECT
Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

10 letters

DEMORALISE
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

DEMORALIZE
Confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"

15 letters

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