Sample sentences for DEPRAVITY

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complete immorality or evilness

depravity = immorality or evilness

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

depravity = complete 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

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

depraved = completely immoral or evil

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