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Depraved   /diprˈeɪvd/   Listen
verb
Deprave  v. t.  (past & past part. depraved; pres. part. depraving)  
1.
To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. (Obs.) "And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart."
2.
To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. "Whose pride depraves each other better part."
Synonyms: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.





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"Depraved" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be sensible that there is no appeal from his master." Where the slave is placed by law entirely under the control of the man who claims him, body and soul, as property, what else could be expected than the most depraved social condition? The marriage relation, the oldest and most sacred institution given to man by his Creator, is unknown and unrecognised in the slave laws of the United States. Would that we could say, that the moral and religious teaching in the slave states were better than the laws; ...
— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown
... this odd kind of Mixture in People of depraved Minds and mean Education; who tho' they are not able to meet a Man's Eyes, or pronounce a Sentence without Confusion, can Voluntarily commit the greatest Villanies, or most ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... do? I was a stranger. Were they all equally depraved, and equally contemptible?—That, said I to myself, is what I wish to know, and I suffered him to ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
... said our crime was "glorifying the cause of murder." The story of the crown is a very terrible, a very startling one. It alleges a state of things which could hardly be supposed to exist amongst the Thugs of India. It depicts a population so hideously depraved that thirty thousand of them in one place, and tens of thousands in various other places, arrayed themselves publicly in procession to honour and glorify murder—to sympathise with murderers as murderers. Yes, gentlemen, that ...
— The Wearing of the Green • A.M. Sullivan
... the Needle; And from whence can that come, but out of Vessels? unless {318} accidentally, as by a Contusion, &c., it be extravased, in which case my Argument will not be injured, because the part is depraved, whereas I speak of the parts, as they are ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various


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