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depravity
/ dɪˈprævɪtɪ /
noun
- the state or an instance of moral corruption
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Other Words From
- nonde·pravi·ty noun plural nondepravities
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Word History and Origins
Origin of depravity1
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Example Sentences
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.
Women are capable of not just of achievement but also of depravity.
Back in 2001, 52 gay men were arrested on a party boat on the Nile and tried for “public depravity”.
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.
Martin 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.
Bonnebault was squint-eyed and his physical appearance did not belie his depravity.
Claude Vignon, the great critic, especially appreciated this woman's intellectual depravity.
That was her idea, I assure you,—my own depravity could suggest nothing more euphonious than Canajoharie.
How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence?
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