Preposition: of

• innocence: It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the marquis de sade.

• Christianity: He expressed his views quite forcibly, and, in 1785, his History of the Corruptions of Christianity was publicly burned.

Converse of object

• expose: At the time of his death Brian was working on exposing corruption in a number of high profile cases.

• combat: The effort to combat corruption involves action on several fronts.

• tackle: Northern donors themselves, however, refuse to change their own policies, or to make tackling corruption a priority.

• deter: It will be more able to do this if it shows strong leadership on combating and deterring corruption in projects it supports.

• allege: He blames former ministers and groups within his own ruling party, alleging corruption and criminality.

• curb: We applaud Ukraine's commitment to curb corruption, promote the rule of law and improve the business climate.

Adjective modifier

• rampant: Running under the name " Change and Reform " , Hamas highlighted the rampant corruption of the PA and promised a clean-up.

• endemic: Plenty of the right-wing pundits who've bemoaned the " endemic corruption " in Africa have remained utterly silent on this.

• textual: Neither of the two has anything to do with the charge of textual corruption of the Holy Bible.

• widespread: Even the tame tribunals which have been established have exposed widespread systematic corruption.

• blatant: These party-political shenanigans arguably contribute as much to Italy's ongoing political farce as the blatant corruption at the top.

• petty: The bureaucracy may have been inefficient, but stories of either high-level or petty corruption were rare.

Modifies a noun

• scandal: Several of the recent corruption scandals that have emerged in relation to projects for which the ECGD gave support have involved joint ventures.

• allegation: The Major Fraud team undertakes investigations into serious and complex fraud cases, corruption in public life, overseas and other corruption allegations.

• charge: In 2004, Rowland pleaded guilty to corruption charges.

Noun used with modifier

• data: Do your personnel have to wait to access your systems Do you suffer from data corruption?

• police: The guilty verdict was upheld by the Court Of Appeal, despite claims of police corruption.

• disk: Then try printing again. that should eliminate disk corruption and software clashes as the potential source of your problem.