DEPRAVITY in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for DEPRAVITY, such as:

1. They were monstrously depraved.
2. This bias towards evil is sometimes called depravity or original sin.
3. Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved.
4. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.
5. The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPRAVITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
depravity
 n.  extreme corruption or degradation; wickedness
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
2  We have reached the unprecedented low level; the awful criminal depravity of substituting the mob for the court and jury, of giving up the jail keys to the mob whenever they are demanded.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonment in the eyes of the law.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
6  When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  The old artist always did himself well: he took berths on the Orient Express, in spite of Connie's dislike of trains de luxe, the atmosphere of vulgar depravity there is aboard them nowadays.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  It was as though it were my most normal condition, and not in the least disease or depravity, so that at last all desire in me to struggle against this depravity passed.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
9  All their faces, even in this guard of honour, showed a mixture of childishness and depravity.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
10  They were monstrously depraved.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
11  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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
12  Yes, Count," she would say, "he is too noble and pure-souled for our present, depraved world.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER X
13  He was hard alike on the lazy, the depraved, and the weak, and tried to get them expelled from the commune.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
14  Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
15  Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  This bias towards evil is sometimes called depravity or original sin.