Corruption and Wrong

Corruption

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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Wrong and corruption are semantically related In some cases you can use "Wrong" instead a noun "Corruption".

Wrong noun - That which is morally unacceptable.

Usage example: any reasonable person should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong

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Corruption and wrong are semantically related in unlawfulness topic. Sometimes you can use "Corruption" instead a noun "Wrong".

common	common corruption	common wrong
obvious	obvious corruption	obvious wrong
actual	actual corruption	actual wrong
little	little corruption	little wrong
Other adjectives: bad, terrible, subtle, social, moral, general, possible, less.

Wrong Genre Savvy: Sam believes that the crusading journalist he is will prove and expose the corruption of Kane and the truth will out.

Source: Series / Boss
Yet he also does the one thing you would never expect an Inquisitor to do: admit he was wrong about his accusation of heresy and daemonic corruption.

Source: Scary Black Man
His "bomb" was evidence about political corruption and how money supposedly going into urban development, ended up in the wrong hands.

Source: Ethnic Scrappy

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