deprave
verb (used with object)
to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
depraves
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present tense formof deprave (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.—Mme. de Staël.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
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 Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 Edmund Spenser
The letters and arts engender luxury, and luxury is one of the powerful instruments of corruption in morals: it destroys courage, lowers the character, and, by another consequence, depraves and corrupts the taste even.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
