Word Meanings - CORRUPTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.

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• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CORRUPTNESS
  The quality of being corrupt.
• CORRUPTIBILITY
  The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
• CORRUPTINGLY
  In a manner that corrupts.
• CORRUPTLY
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.
• CORRUPT
  1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated;
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CORRUPTRESS
  A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• CORRUPTLESS
  Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CORRUPTER
  One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• CORRUPTFUL
  Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• INCORRUPTED
  Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• INCORRUPTIBLE
  1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake. 2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and
• INCORRUPTIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• INCORRUPTLY
  Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.