corrupter, n. deceiver, knave, crook, villain, criminal; briber, tempter, enticer, wolf, coaxer; debaucher, debauchee, perverter; libertine, profligate, rake, rou6; voluptuary, sensualist, seducer; lecher, satyr, goat.
corruption, n. 1. depravity, vice, turpitude, wickedness, evil, iniquity, sinfulness, sin, viciousness; demoralization, perversion, degeneracy; laxity, looseness, immorality, shamelessness, abandon, fleshpots; dissolution, profligacy, wantonness, licentiousness, lasciviousness, lewdness, lustfulness.
2. dishonesty, baseness, falseness, underhandedness, deceit, deception; bribery, venality, mercenariness; jobbery, graft, Law. breach of trust; criminality, crookedness, villainy.
3. adulteration, debasement, impairment, vitiation, degradation, deterioration; contamination, defilement, tainting, pollution, infection; foulness, rottenness, rot, putrefaction, putrescence.
corsair, n. 1. privateer, pirate, viking, buccaneer, freebooter, rapparee; raider, plunderer, marauder, depredator, looter, rifler.
2. privateer, armed ship, pirate ship, pirate, sea rover.
corset, n. stays, girdle, corselet, foundation, foundation garment, stomacher, Obs. bodice.
cortege, n. 1. retinue, train, entourage; suite, staff, attendants, court.
2. procession, parade; column, string, line, file; cavalcade, caravan, coffle.
coruscation, n. gleam, flash, spark, glitter, Archaic. glister; ray, beam, flash, fulguration, glint, glance; sparkle, glimmer, scintillation, shimmer, twinkling, glistening; radiance, brilliance, luster, luminescence, luminosity; glow, glare, phosphorescence, tribo-luminescence.
coruscation, n. gleam, flash, spark, glitter, Archaic. glister; ray, beam, flash, fulguration, glint, glance; sparkle, glimmer, scintillation, shimmer, twinkling, glistening; radiance, brilliance, luster, luminescence, luminosity; glow, glare, phosphorescence, tribo-luminescence.
cosmopolitan, adj. 1. international, universal, global, world-wide, catholic, pandemic.
2. unprovincial, broadminded, liberal, cultivated, cultured; sophisticated, worldly, urbane, metropolitan, worldly-wise, wise in the ways of the world, Inf jet-set.
-n. 3. citizen of the world, world traveler, globetrotter, Inf. jet-setter, cosmopolite.
cosmopolite, n. See - cosmopolitan (def. 3).