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Corruptive

Definition: Corruptive

Corruptive

Adjective

1. Tending to corrupt or pervert.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Corruptive

Synonym: perversive (adj). (additional references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Corruptive

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Nigeria	However, as overall capital investment increases, government procurement remains highly susceptible to corruptive practices. (references)
	Nigeria	Foreign investors are convenient targets for extortion, bribery, and other corruptive acts since they are viewed as both relatively easy to coerce and profitable. (references)
	Nigeria	However, corruptive practices are not just targeted against foreign firms and many domestic entrepreneurs complain vigorously about the corruptive nature of doing business in their own country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: Corruptive

Language		Translations for "corruptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مفسد (contaminated, infectious, perversive, spoiling). (various references)

French		corruptif. (various references)

Greek		διαφθαρτικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		züllesztő, megvesztegethető (accommodating, venal), megvesztegető (suborner), megrontó (debaucher), korrumpáló, elzüllesztő, bomlasztó (disruptive, perversive, subversive). (various references)

Pig Latin		orruptivecay

Romanian		corupãtor (briber, corrupter, seducer, spoiler, suborner). (various references)

Spanish		corruptivo. (various references)

Swedish		besticklig (open to bribes). (various references)

Turkish		zararlı (baleful, baneful, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), bulaşıcı (catching, contagious, infectious, taking, transmitted, zymotic), bozucu (detractive, disruptive, shattering, spoiling), çürütücü (cankerous, corrosive, putrefacient, putrefactive, septic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Corruptive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "corruptive": corruptively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Corruptive"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "corruptive" (pronounced keru"ptiv)
5	-u" p t i v	disparages, disruptive, eruptive.
4	-p t i v	adaptive, adoptive, captive, contraceptive, deceptive, descriptive, perceptive, preemptive, presumptive, receptive, redemptive, unreceptive.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, cooperative, corrective, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, dispositive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, recuperative, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Corruptive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-r-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: courtier, croupier, outprice.
	-3 letters: corrupt, courier, courter, coverup, cuprite, curvier, cutover, evictor, overcut, overtip, picture, pierrot, porrect, poutier, preriot, procure, recruit, roupier, trouper, upriver.
	-4 letters: copier, copter, corrie, corvet, couter, covert, croupe, curite, currie, curter, curvet, erotic, irrupt, orrice, outvie, poetic, porter, pourer, pouter, precut, pretor, pricer, privet, protei, prover, recoup, rector, report.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-p-r-r-t-u-v"
	+2 letters: corruptively, reproductive.
	+3 letters: proventriculi, reproductives.
	+4 letters: overparticular, overproduction, proventriculus, reproductively.
	+5 letters: nonreproductive, overproductions.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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