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depraved

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verb

past tense of deprave

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of depraved
Adjective
That's the sort of depraved conditions that drove those in detention there to ten days of hunger strike so far. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025 Our narrator is Alex, an apathetic and depraved teen gang leader who is as pleased by violence as he is enthralled with classical music. Robert English, EW.com, 30 July 2025
Verb
DiCaprio has played disturbed and depraved individuals in Scorsese’s films before, but Killers of the Flower Moon is something different. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depraved
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depraved
Adjective
  • Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General, resigned -- resigned rather than carry out the corrupt orders of the president.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Eric Adams, who started his career as a transit cop, was undone in part by his dealings with corrupt old friends from the department.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, the concept has been perverted to mean higher-ed grandees' exclusive right to determine who participates in scholarly life.
    Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In Alzheimer’s, this transport system often becomes clogged or degraded.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.
    Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Files were easily lost or corrupted.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Without a promise of pay, many air traffic controllers have called in sick or just not shown up for work.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms and officials took a breath.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly everything weakened, from Big Tech companies like Nvidia and Apple to stocks of smaller companies looking to get past uncertainty about tariffs and trade.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Eighteen packages of European Union sanctions and dozens more from the United States, United Kingdom and others have weakened Russia’s economy – but not its resolve to carry on fighting.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • They got humiliated in their two Division Series games in Toronto, got a reprieve in the form of Aaron Judge’s all-around brilliance in Game 3 and then got eliminated by the Blue Jays on Wednesday night, losing 5-2 in Game 4 while showing no sudden-death fight whatsoever.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • An Italian activist who was part of the Gaza aid flotilla and subsequently detained by Israel has described allegations of being mistreated and humiliated while in Israeli custody, with little access to legal assistance.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The dark comedy follows a wealthy socialite, Stacy (Cherry), and a struggling writer, Becky (Chalotra), who are brought together at a lavish, debauched New York party.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025

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