deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
depravation
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a word derived from
deprave.
Example Sentences
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"In Invergordon we have areas of social depravation but no funding to put into anything," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
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
“They will promote luxury, idleness, and expence, and a general depravation of manners,” Cato had predicted.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
How is it, says one of the interlocutors, that the strongest, the sweetest, the most innocent of pleasures is become the most fruitful source of depravation and misfortune?
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
