Sample sentences for DEPRAVITY

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Definition

complete immorality or evilness

It is a terrible story of an innocent who trusted a man who treated her with ruthless depravity.

depravity = immorality or evilness

depravity = immorality or evilness

And yet his crime was committed more in thoughtlessness than deliberate depravity.
Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
"It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things," she said gaily.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.
Douglass, Frederick -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

depraved = completely immoral or evil

"Why are you constantly escorting me places?" I say. "Isn't there a depraved activity you're supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?"
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

depraved = completely immoral or evil

And yet his crime was committed more in thoughtlessness than deliberate depravity.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

depravity = immorality or evilness

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

depravity = immorality or evilness

Now the planners are asking their people not to blame the government, but to blame the depravity of the rich,
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

depravity = complete immorality or evilness

His own explorations have suggested to him that prostitutes are motivated less by depravity than by poverty,
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

depravity = complete immorality or evil

not one drop of real depravity had penetrated to her heart;
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

depravity = immorality or evilness

Underpinning all of it ... lay a bedrock of depravity and violence
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

depravity = complete immorality or evilness

Luther had proclaimed that mankind was totally depraved after the Fall from Grace.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

depraved = immoral or evil

depravity = immorality or evilness

I have prayed-to both sides-for release from this depravity of thought,
Stephen King -- Rose Red

depravity = immorality or evilness

...Gus told us that he feared oblivion, and I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

depraved = hopelessly bad

The enormity of the crime and the extreme depravity of the criminal, appear the greater in view of the character of the victim,
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

depravity = immorality or evilness

He was hard alike on the lazy, the depraved, and the weak, and tried to get them expelled from the commune.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

depraved = immoral

And what was the repentance that was extorted from the hardness of her heart and the blackness of her depravity?
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

depravity = immorality or evilness

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