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Heinous vs Corrupt - What's the difference?

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Heinous is a related term of corrupt.


As adjectives the difference between heinous and corrupt

is that heinous is totally reprehensible while corrupt is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

As a verb corrupt is

to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

heinous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Totally reprehensible.
    • I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
    The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.
    The government denounced the attack as the most heinous of the last decade.
    Political Leaders from around the world have condemned these heinous acts.
    In our public services sorry seems to be the most heinous word.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "heinous" is often applied: crime, act, sin, murder, offence.

    Synonyms

    * (totally reprehensible) abominable, horrible, odious

    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    corrupt

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
    • The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
  • Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
    • The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
    It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
  • In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • * Knolles
    • Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

    Quotations

    * , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    Synonyms

    * corrupted

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
    • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
  • * , Genesis 6:12
    • And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
    • to corrupt language, or a holy text
  • To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 19
    • Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .

    Related terms

    * corruptible * corruption * incorruptible

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