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depravity

/dih-prav-i-tee/US // dɪˈpræv ɪ ti //UK // (dɪˈprævɪtɪ) //

堕落,堕落性,堕落的人,乱伦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural de·prav·i·ties. for 2.

    • : the state of being depraved.
    • : a depraved act or practice.

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Examples

  • He bet against the video and everyone else who witnessed his depravity.

  • Women are capable of not just of achievement but also of depravity.

  • Back in 2001, 52 gay men were arrested on a party boat on the Nile and tried for “public depravity”.

  • There are some kinds of human depravity that I will never truly understand.

  • But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.

  • Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street is operatic in its unapologetic depravity.

  • There is a certain kind of intellectual depravity in trying to have us accept that all surveillance is good for us.

  • And the truth of the depravity of man and his inability to restore himself to God's favour ought to be maintained.

  • Bonnebault was squint-eyed and his physical appearance did not belie his depravity.

  • Claude Vignon, the great critic, especially appreciated this woman's intellectual depravity.

  • That was her idea, I assure you,—my own depravity could suggest nothing more euphonious than Canajoharie.

  • How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence?