Depravity
[dɪ'prævɪtɪ] or [dɪ'prævəti]
Definition
(noun.) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; 'the various turpitudes of modern society'.
Checker: Williams--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Corruption, wickedness, viciousness, demoralization, vice, degeneracy.
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Examples
- Natural depravity, I suppose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If this be so, there must be a cause or causes for such depravity in our common people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The depravity of the human heart is such--' 'You will oblige me, ma'am,' interrupted Mr. Spenlow, 'by confining yourself to facts. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's terrible depravity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He knew that his spirituality was concomitant of a process of depravity, a sort of pleasure in self-destruction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why mankind should sleep through several hours of sunlight in the morning, and stay awake through a needless time in the evening, can probably only be attributed to total depravity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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