Spiritually or morally ailing; corrupt through sin or wrongdoing. Obsolete.

Evil, sinful, wicked; morally or spiritually polluted; abominable. Cf. clean, adj. 4.

Spiritually or morally unsound.

Destitute of morals or virtue; vicious, immoral: = thowless, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Corrupted, depraved, spoiled. Obsolete.

Of habits, practices, etc.: of the nature of vice; contrary to moral principles; depraved, immoral, bad.

Of persons: Not sound in respect of morals, character, etc.; morally tainted or corrupted.

Morally corrupted; tainted or contaminated with or guilty of (a fault, defect, or vice). Also culpably involved in (a crime, etc.).

Morally or spiritually corrupt; wicked; vile, offensive. Cf. rust, n.1 2. Obsolete.

Morally corrupt or vitiated; wicked, evil.

figurative and in figurative contexts.

Of a thoroughly corrupt nature or character; wicked through and through; extremely unkind or unpleasant.

figurative. Infected with evil; corrupt, depraved.

That has been tainted or contaminated with moral corruption or false opinion; depraved; heretical.

Morally marred or defiled. Obsolete.

Depraved, corrupted, demoralized.

figurative and in figurative contexts. See also poisoned chalice n. at compounds.

figurative. Perverted, distorted; morally ugly, offensive, or hateful.

Morally destructive or corrupting; conveying an evil influence; malevolent, malignant.

Contrary or insensible to something good or morally commendable. Obsolete.

Made or become corrupt (in various senses); = corrupt, adj.

Corrupt, evil, depraved.

Having a base mind; = base, adj. 10.

Stained, tinged; contaminated, infected, corrupted; touched with putrefaction or incipient decay; affected with some corrupting influence.

Of or pertaining to Gomorrah (see Genesis xviii, xix).

Partaking of the nature of vice.

spec. Rendered morally bad; corrupt, wicked.

Seduced or corrupted from duty or virtue; depraved or corrupt in morals; given up to sensual pleasures or loose living; dissolute, licentious.

Debauched (in later use frequently with somewhat vaguer sense).

Having the nature or character of tares (in allusion to the parable of the tares: see tare, n.1 3).

figurative. That is in a weakened or diminished condition. Cf. sunken, adj. 3. Morally corrupt; depraved, degenerate.

In attributive use. figurative. Of sin, vice, etc.: Characterized by, full of, moral blemishes or defects.

= debauched, adj.

figurative. In a disordered or depraved condition (of mind, of affairs, etc.); pertaining to such a condition, morbid.

figurative. (Cf. ulcerated, adj. 1b.)

Vicious.

= debauched, adj. (Cf. debauchness, n.)

= deboise, v.

Corrupt, evil, depraved; = prave, adj.

Depraved.

figurative. (See healthy, adj. 3.)

figurative. Of literature, etc.: Morally corrupt.

slang (originally and chiefly British). Very bad or unpleasant, nasty, disagreeable. Now somewhat rare.