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depraved
[ dih-preyvd ]
adjective
- corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
Synonyms: lewd, licentious, profligate, dissolute, degenerate, reprobate, sinful, evil
depraved
/ dɪˈpreɪvɪdnɪs; dɪˈpreɪvd /
adjective
- morally bad or debased; corrupt; perverted
Derived Forms
- depravedness, noun
Other Words From
- de·praved·ly [dih-, preyvd, -lee, -, prey, -vid-], adverb
- de·pravedness noun
- nonde·praved adjective
- self-de·praved adjective
- unde·praved adjective
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The arch in his back, combined with his unwitting snarl, makes him at once diminutive and imposing, childlike and depraved.
What the more wacko conspiracies have in common is that they cast an enemy in the role of depraved villain.
Gullible and angry, they were rioting for a lie, and they were using social media – including Parler – to issue depraved threats and to organize resistance to the American republic.
The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes.
My monsters, the ones you called depraved, they are the beautiful, heroic ones.
Orwellian, Malthusian, barbarous, depraved…I think you get me.
The image of children being disposed of in such a barbaric and depraved manner outraged people across the world.
On his execution, state media accused Jang of leading a "dissolute, depraved life" and running up £6.4 million in gambling debts.
In this depraved state of mind he arrived at Perpignan, where that befell him which I am about to relate.
The sculpture and frescoes of the period of course exhibited the depraved taste and debased execution of the times.
But though all the curates were in an utterly false position they were not all equally depraved.
How comes it then, that human nature, notwithstanding the death of a God, is still depraved?
There is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.
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