Having the power of corrupting, tainting, depraving, or vitiating.

adjective. Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

adjective. Tending to corrupt.

adjective. tending to corrupt or pervert

"_misery, _ is, in the first way, anything contrary to the will's natural appetite, namely corruptive or distressing evils, the contrary of which man desires naturally, wherefore the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 8) that "pity is sorrow for a visible evil, whether corruptive or distressing.""

purificatory  reformative  

evil  

corruptively  

disruptive  eruptive  

ancient-looking  aspect  cast-off  d'orsay  dog-eat-dog  

contaminative  debauching  degrading  demoralizing  depravatory