If someone or something is corrupt, they're broken morally or in some other way. Corrupt people perform immoral or illegal acts for personal gain, without apology. ... A corrupt person — a criminal, a crook, or a cookie thief — brings society down with immoral and dishonest behavior.

How do you become corrupted?

It can begin with the perception of an injury or threat; or with a vision of what seems a tantalizing good. A society can become so pervasively corrupt that its members can typically fail to recognize their viciousness. and fully accepts an account that justifies what he once thought shameful or wrong.

What is a corrupted mind?

1 lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices.