corrupt
dishonest or spoiled by moral damage
Roots
- com-: with, together, complete, or intensified
- rump / rupt: break, burst, or break apart
Other words with the rump / rupt root
- abrupt: sudden or unexpectedly broken off
- corruption: dishonesty or moral decay in a system
- disrupt: to interrupt or throw into disorder
- disruption: break in order or normal flow
- erupt: to burst out suddenly
- eruption: a sudden bursting out
- interrupt: to break into or stop the flow of something
Corrupt is breakage inside trust, law, or purity: something sound has been spoiled.
The corrupt official treated public money like his own.
Corrupt belongs to the break family, but the break is moral or structural. A corrupt system still stands on the outside, but something inside it has broken from honesty.