putrefaction

Noun

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  • the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
    
  • moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
    
  • its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
    
  • Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
    

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  corruption , degeneracy , depravation , depravity , decomposition , rot , rotting