depravation
- a word derived from deprave.
Example Sentences
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One report says that sleep depravation costs the UK up to £40bn a year in lost productivity.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
The new lawsuit alleges negligence and the depravation of benefits, based on the emotional or financial support that Hutchins previously provided to younger sister Svetlana Zemko and parents Olga Solovey and Anatolii Androsovych.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
For so many people, scholars and members of the general public, the African American experience is one primarily characterized by trauma, pain, anxiety, pathology, depravation.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
Wallenda, who has made successful walks across Niagara Falls and above Times Square, said he has been training with an oxygen depravation mask to mirror the conditions above the volcano.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2020
This foreign pomp and splendour covered the rapid depravation of men's hearts, and created a wide gulf between the Mikado and his people.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
