Depraved
[dɪ'preɪvd] or [dɪ'prevd]
Definition
(adj.) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; 'depraved criminals'; 'a perverted sense of loyalty'; 'the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deprave
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Synonyms and Synonymous
p. a. Corrupted, corrupt, vicious, wicked, profligate, dissolute, reprobate, graceless, abandoned, shameless, hardened, lost.
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Examples
- But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Did you believe that young creature was so depraved? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is a very depraved taste, I suppose, but I am very fond of curry. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was not depraved enough to determine immediately on a new choice, and yet I often thought about it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But so depraved a child,--are you not afraid she will teach her some mischief? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What do you mean by depraved? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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