All 7 Uses of
depravity
in
War and Peace
- How often when considering her character I have told myself that I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved woman.†
Chpt 4
- "Yes, I never loved her," said he to himself; "I knew she was a depraved woman," he repeated, "but dared not admit it to myself.†
Chpt 4
- "Yes, Count," she would say, "he is too noble and pure-souled for our present, depraved world.†
Chpt 4
- "I said from the first," declared Anna Pavlovna referring to Pierre, "I said at the time and before anyone else" (she insisted on her priority) "that that senseless young man was spoiled by the depraved ideas of these days.†
Chpt 5
- Kutuzov was a traitor, and Prince Vasili during the visits of condolence paid to him on the occasion of his daughter's death said of Kutuzov, whom he had formerly praised (it was excusable for him in his grief to forget what he had said), that it was impossible to expect anything else from a blind and depraved old man.†
Chpt 12
- He was hard alike on the lazy, the depraved, and the weak, and tried to get them expelled from the commune.
Chpt 15 *depraved = immoral
- Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(depravity) complete immorality or evilness