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Adjective praetorian has 2 senses
- praetorian, praetorial, pretorian, pretorial - of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers"
- praetorian, pretorian - characteristic of Praetorian soldiers in respect to corruption or political venality; "a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
Antonym: incorrupt (indirect, via corrupt)
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