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verb
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
adj
- Morally corrupt.
- (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- morally bad or wrong
- having the nature of vice
- having or exerting a malignant influence
noun
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- morally objectionable behavior
- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
adj
- Morally corrupt.
- Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
- Totally objectionable.
- Vile, disgusting.
- morally corrupt or evil
- of or relating to or attended by putrefaction
- in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
noun
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- 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 act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
adj
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
- (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
verb
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- to misinterpret designedly.
- (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
- To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
- (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
- (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
noun
verb
adj
- not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- to raze to the ground, also figuratively
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make imperfect
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
- (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
adj
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
verb
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
- hold something in one's hands and move it
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
- (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
- (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
- (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
verb
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- equip with sails or masts
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
noun
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
verb
- To achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner.
- (specifically, criminal law) To induce (someone, such as a witness) to commit perjury, for example by making a false accusation or giving false evidence.
- (also figuratively) To induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
- incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
- procure (false testimony or perjury)
noun
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
- (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
- (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Officious; meddling.
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
noun
verb
noun
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
verb
verb
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
verb
- To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
- (transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
- To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
- (religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
- To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- spot, stain, or pollute
noun
- A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
- An act of marching in files or lines.
- A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
- (military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
noun
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- 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 act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
noun
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
- (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
- (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
noun
- The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
- (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
- (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
verb
verb
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- alter from the original
- make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
adj
- containing errors or alterations
- lacking in integrity
- touched by rot or decay
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
- (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
verb
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- to misinterpret designedly.
- (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
- To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
- (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
- (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
noun
verb
adj
- not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- destroy property or hinder normal operations
- to raze to the ground, also figuratively
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
noun
verb
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make imperfect
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
- (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
verb
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
- hold something in one's hands and move it
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
- (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
- (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
- (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
verb
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- equip with sails or masts
- connect or secure to
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
- (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
noun
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear used in fishing
- formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
- A promiscuous woman.
- (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
- (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
- (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- (informal) A costume or an outfit.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
verb
- To achieve (some result; specifically, perjury) in a corrupt manner.
- (specifically, criminal law) To induce (someone, such as a witness) to commit perjury, for example by making a false accusation or giving false evidence.
- (also figuratively) To induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
- incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
- procure (false testimony or perjury)
verb
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
verb
- To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
- (transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
- To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
- (religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
- To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- spot, stain, or pollute
noun
- A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
- An act of marching in files or lines.
- A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
- (military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
- Morally corrupt.
- (computing, programming, slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- morally bad or wrong
- having the nature of vice
- having or exerting a malignant influence
noun
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- morally objectionable behavior
- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
adj
- Morally corrupt.
- Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
- Totally objectionable.
- Vile, disgusting.
- morally corrupt or evil
- of or relating to or attended by putrefaction
- in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
adj
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
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- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
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- Officious; meddling.
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity