depraving
- present participle of deprave.
Example Sentences
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A naive expression used by Agnes was represented as depraving the one; a low and somewhat vulgar phrase was insisted upon as calculated to ruin the other.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
You would think that this predicament must deprave, and so without doubt it does; and yet it is not wholly depraving.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by Howells, William Dean
Item, that she rails on men in authority, depraving their honours with bitter jests and taunts; and that she's a backbiter, setting strife betwixt bosom friends.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
In the resulting degradation the woman has the largest share, since it makes her a pariah and involves her in all the hardening and depraving influences of social ostracism.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
The vague phrases of depraving manners and applying revolutionary principles perfidiously, were exactly calculated to smite the band of violent men whose conduct was to Robespierre the scandal of the Revolution.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John
