Corruption and Decency

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Corruption noun - Immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society.

Usage example: Socrates was put to death because the ancient Athenians believed he was spreading corruption to their youth

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Decency is an antonym for corruption in topics: baseness, adulteration, dishonesty.

Decency noun - Conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong.

Usage example: expected all of the scouts in his troop to be models of decency

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Corruption is an antonym for decency.

Nearby Words: decent, decently

human	human corruption	human decency
pure	pure corruption	pure decency
common	common corruption	common decency
actual	actual corruption	actual decency
Other adjectives: little, social, inner, moral, general, political, organized.

In the end though, it turns out that Batman's trust in the people of Gotham is what saves him - his trust that their decency over Joker's corruption will win.

Source: Analysis / The Dark Knight Trilogy aka: The Dark Knight Saga

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