All 10 Uses of
depravity
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "Through idleness and depravity," Raskolnikov put in.†
Chpt 4.1
- I certainly am idle and depraved, but your sister has such qualities that even I could not help being impressed by them.†
Chpt 4.1depraved = completely immoral or evil; or made immoral or evil
- He is the most depraved, and abjectly vicious specimen of that class of men.†
Chpt 4.2
- What held her up—surely not depravity?†
Chpt 4.4
- not one drop of real depravity had penetrated to her heart;
Chpt 4.4 *depravity = immorality or evilness
- He saw through her as she stood before him.... "There are three ways before her," he thought, "the canal, the madhouse, or...at last to sink into depravity which obscures the mind and turns the heart to stone."†
Chpt 4.4
- The man, moreover, was very unpleasant, evidently depraved, undoubtedly cunning and deceitful, possibly malignant.†
Chpt 6.3depraved = completely immoral or evil; or made immoral or evil
- Enough of your vile, nasty anecdotes, depraved vile, sensual man!†
Chpt 6.4
- "To think that I could for one instant have looked for help from that coarse brute, that depraved sensualist and blackguard!" he cried.†
Chpt 6.5
- But now she quite gave up all effort, now it was a grin, a broad grin; there was something shameless, provocative in that quite unchildish face; it was depravity, it was the face of a harlot, the shameless face of a French harlot.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
complete immorality or evilness