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depravity
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  • ...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.  (source)
    depraved = complete badness
  • To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.  (source)
    depravity = immorality or evilness
  • part of the depravity of the plot  (source)
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  • Was there no end to their depravity?  (source)
    depravity = immorality or evilness
  • ...what have you been doing to that book, you depraved boy?  (source)
    depraved = immoral or evil
  • Deprave my little children?  (source)
    Deprave = make immoral or evil
  • Thereafter, family politics consisted of assassination, betrayal, and other depravities, reducing Palancar's house to a shadow of its former grandeur.  (source)
    depravities = actions that are completely immoral or evil
  • You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?†  (source)
  • Both utterly heartless, both men upon town, both thoroughly initiated in its worst vices, both deeply in debt, both fallen from some higher estate, both addicted to every depravity for which society can find some genteel name and plead its most depraving conventionalities as an excuse, they were naturally gentlemen of most unblemished honour themselves, and of great nicety concerning the honour of other people.†  (source)
  • still thou errest, nor end wilt find Of erring, from the path of truth remote: Unjustly thou depravest it with the name Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains, Or Nature: God and Nature bid the same, When he who rules is worthiest, and excels Them whom he governs.†  (source)
    depravest = most immoral or evil
  • Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself--but only himself.  (source)
    depravity = immorality or evilness
  • Luther had proclaimed that mankind was totally depraved after the Fall from Grace.  (source)
    depraved = immoral or evil
  • But, Cousin, consider that, if you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.  (source)
    deprave = make someone immoral or evil
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