depraves
- present tense form of deprave (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She furthermore held that hereditary rule depraves the best dispositions, and produces the monsters that have horrified the world.
From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Sue, Eugène
You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Thus the host of Moumouth became his tyrant; so true is it that personal interest depraves the best natures.
From The Story of a Cat by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Ah! why hath Nature to so hard a hart Given so goodly giftes of beauties grace, Whose pryde depraves each other better part, And all those pretious ornaments deface?
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
And then there is the money, which depraves when it comes in a certain way.”
From Other People's Money by Gaboriau, Émile
