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Meanings of depravity in English

Portuguese
corrupção
Catalan
degeneració
Spanish
degeneración

Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.

        corrupção
        Catalan
        depravació

        A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice.

              depravació
              Synonyms
              Examples for "turpitude"
              Examples for "turpitude"
              1
              His will was not stronger than the general turpitude of his nature.
              The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 3
              2
              Superficial social reformers make poverty responsible for the total turpitude of men.
              A Hero and Some Other Folks
              3
              The cities were berated as hubs of moral turpitude, decadence and greed.
              The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism
              4
              It's a piece of moral turpitude-aninsult to common sense-andinfamously odd-
              Poems
              5
              Argue with these gross self-satisfied fellows about the turpitude of the artisans!
              Clayhanger
              Usage of depravity in English
              1
              Inevitably, it provokes envy in the poor and depravity in the rich.
              Financial Crime and Corruption
              2
              If so, he had not realised it; the depravity had been unconscious.
              A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
              3
              Has this country really sunk to such levels of depravity and viciousness?
              The Irish Times
              4
              And yet his crime was committed more in thoughtlessness than deliberate depravity.
              A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
              5
              Rarely do they risk matching the depravity to which they are responding.
              NY Magazine
              6
              And yet there are people who profess to disbelieve in total depravity.
              Gala-Days
              7
              Dementia = leading characteristic of Norman Type, indicating characteristic decadence and depravity?
              English passengers
              8
              On the contrary, he was shocked as he noted the wily depravity.
              Fifteen Years with the Outcast
              9
              The depravity of this act was laid bare in court last week.
              The South African
              10
              The dominant power of slavery was not alone responsible for this depravity.
              The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
              11
              Surely, the whole world knows of Dracula's infamy, his cruelty, his depravity.
              Vlad. The Last Confession
              12
              Pictures of violent depravity alternated with runes and pentagons along the walls.
              The Naked God
              13
              He feared his mind would snap from the pressure of such depravity.
              The Naked God
              14
              No amount of depravity is able utterly to destroy our moral discernment.
              Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
              15
              Where such injunctions are disregarded it is an evidence of great depravity.
              Sermons on Various Important Subjects / Written Partly on Sundry...
              16
              I was appalled by the depravity and the general slump in morals.
              The ginger man
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              Depravity through the time
              Depravity across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common