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Old 12-12-2011, 01:55 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
Sigh. It would be nice if just once an MR thread didn't derail into The Dictionary Dance.

cor·rupt
1. guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
2. debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
3. made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.
4. infected; tainted.
5. decayed; putrid.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/corrupt

Examples of CORRUPT

1. a politician corrupted by greed
2. music that corrupts the morals of children
3. corrupting the country's legal system
4. the corrupting influence of power
5. Their idealism has been corrupted by cynicism.
6. The file has been corrupted and no longer works properly.
7. a corrupted version of the ancient text

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corrupt

Your definition of corruption -- bribery -- is much narrower than the accepted definition of corruption.
And your multiple definitions are overly wide... simply because a word has several different meanings doesn't mean that they all apply simultaneously... the usage here was clearly in line with the first of your definitions and the others are contextually irrelevant...
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