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单词 evil communications corrupt good manners
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evil communications corrupt good manners
Proverb. evil communications corrupt good manners and variants: immoral or malicious words (or, in later use, instances of bad behaviour; cf. sense 2a) have a deleterious influence upon a person's conduct. [This proverb appears in 1 Corinthians 15.33 (see quot. 1582; compare post-classical Latin corrumpunt bonos mores colloquia prava (Vulgate)); an earlier (Greek) version is found in Menander ( Monostichoi 738): ϕθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ᾽ ὁμιλίαι κακαί.]
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1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. Pref. sig. Aa.iii For as thapostle also reherseth, euyll communicacyon marreth and corrupteth good maners.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iiijv Naughtye communications spyl good maners.
?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) iii. sig. Eiijv Euil communication confoundeth good vertues.
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. xv. 33 Euil communications [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. yuele spechis, 1611 euill communications; Gk. ὁμιλίαι κακαί, L. colloquia prava] corrupt good maners.
1622 W. Gouge Of Domesticall Duties vii. 631 Thus is that prouerbe verified, euill communications corrupt good manners.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. iii. 211 There is nothing but Cursing and Swearing among them. I wish your Honour would..not think of going among them.—Evil Communication corrupts good Manners.
1817 W. Hazlitt Round Table I. xvii. 147 On the principle that evil communication corrupts good manners, they retain a virgin purity of understanding, and laudable ignorance of all liberal arts and sciences.
1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xvi. 134 No doubt he would have taken the fence readily enough had his rider followed immediately after Lord Chiltern; but Dandolo had baulked at the fence nearly a dozen times, and evil communications will corrupt good manners.
1939 W. S. Maugham Christmas Holiday ii. 28 A disposition of such sweetness that no evil communication could corrupt his good manners.
1995 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 27 Mar. 9b Hollywood might be held to blame [for the rudeness of drivers]—‘evil communications corrupt good manners,’ St. Paul said.
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