1. (

• corruption ,
• degeneracy ,
• depravation ,
• depravity ,
• putrefaction

) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" ;

2. (

• depravity ,
• turpitude

) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society" ;