depravity
Origin of depravity
1Other words from depravity
- non·de·prav·i·ty, noun, plural non·de·prav·i·ties.
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How to use depravity in a sentence
The publications were visually striking, filled with stories and images that illustrated the depravity and cruelty of the plantation system.
If semi-mortal, prewar monsters were metaphors for psychological and societal ailments, the human monsters of the ’60s and ’70s embraced explicit depravity and violence.
He bet against the video and everyone else who witnessed his depravity.
Derek Chauvin’s Guilty and So Is the Whole Damn System | Goldie Taylor | April 20, 2021 | The Daily BeastWomen are capable of not just of achievement but also of depravity.
Why It’s Important To See Women As Capable … Of Terrible Atrocities | LGBTQ-Editor | November 21, 2020 | No Straight NewsBack in 2001, 52 gay men were arrested on a party boat on the Nile and tried for “public depravity”.
Al-Sisi’s Egypt Is Worse For Gays Than The Muslim Brotherhood | Bel Trew | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
There are some kinds of human depravity that I will never truly understand.
But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.
My Friend Oderus Urungus: GWAR’s Dave Brockie Was a High School Punk Legend | Andy Hinds | March 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMartin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street is operatic in its unapologetic depravity.
There is a certain kind of intellectual depravity in trying to have us accept that all surveillance is good for us.
And the truth of the depravity of man and his inability to restore himself to God's favour ought to be maintained.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamBonnebault was squint-eyed and his physical appearance did not belie his depravity.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheClaude Vignon, the great critic, especially appreciated this woman's intellectual depravity.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThat was her idea, I assure you,—my own depravity could suggest nothing more euphonious than Canajoharie.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonHow deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence?
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster | Daniel Webster
British Dictionary definitions for depravity
/ (dɪˈprævɪtɪ) /
the state or an instance of moral corruption
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