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depravity
Meaning: extreme moral corruption or wickedness
depravity in a sentence
How depravity is used in real sentences:
The investigation exposed the depravity of officials who profited from the famine.
The tyrant's depravity became clear when he punished families for crimes they had not committed.
“Old accounts often made the animal an archetype of wilderness, while some ranchers portrayed every attack on livestock as evidence of lupine depravity, as if hunger were deliberate evil.”
— from the passage The Valley Remembers
Synonyms for depravity
Other words for depravity — corruption, wickedness and degeneracy — carry the same meaning.
- corruption
- wickedness
- degeneracy
Antonyms of depravity
Words that mean the opposite of depravity:
- virtue
- morality
- decency
Where it comes from
From Latin depravare, meaning 'to distort or corrupt.'
Memory hook
DE-PRAVITY suggests depraved gravity pulling a person's morals downward.