corruption

Padre Goyo, with his clerical collar and his bulletproof vest, is an icon for those fighting drugs and corruption.

Religion, say these, was corrupted a little after His death, and remained in that state of corruption about sixteen hundred years.

Now these lips must be “saying to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.”

Its spirit lies deep in the corruption of our common nature.

Pompey only sought to do what would be agreeable to Ptolemy; but Gabinius had yielded to corruption.

There is some corruption in the text; but the general meaning is clear enough.