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depravity
/dɪˈpɹævəti/
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What does depravity mean?
noun
- The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
- A particular depraved act or trait.
- Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈpɹævəti/
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When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
“It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things,” she said gaily.
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She could not have imagined, that, in all the fermentation of civilized depravity, a similar plot could have entered a human mind.
For years poor Harry Thaw was front-paged on the newspapers and gibbeted in the pulpits as the shocking example of youthful depravity.
This child had been carefully brought up and was one of 13 children, none of whom displayed any similar depravity of appetite.