Example Sentences

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You have not stifled a single passion nor averted a single danger: you have depraved the passions by starving them, and broken down all the defences which so effectively protect children brought up in freedom.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

In the meantime he has been an economic loss to his many employers, and his experience may have depraved his character.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill

And if it were possible for those debates to vitiate the principles of the people as much as they have depraved their tastes, I should cry out, "God save the Republic!"

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

We must remember that it leaves untouched the question, what restrictions may be necessary for men who have depraved and debased their own appetites, until innocent indulgence does reach the heart and pervert it.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

You have depraved the earth, perverted the Word, prostituted justice.

From Seraphita by Balzac, Honoré de