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Recent Examples of depravity Back then, many conservatives treated the Epstein files as a skeleton key promising cataclysmic revelations about elite depravity and corruption. Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 We are used to it, even as new levels of depravity are uncovered on a weekly basis. Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025 As Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and depravity builds to its climax, the film’s ostensible hero, tennis professional Guy Haines (Farley Granger), needs to get out ahead of the psychopath (Robert Walker) who means to frame him for a murder. Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025 Moreover, the sender's expression of both solidarity and helplessness captures well the mood of an outraged regional and global public, reckoning with its powerlessness in the face of the accumulating moral depravity in Gaza. Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for depravity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depravity
Noun
  • For Parisian Jews in 1941 and 1942, these thefts were compounded by a cascade of other degradations, including the loss of distinguished positions at the Sorbonne, in banking, science, and medicine, with more devastation to come.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Zanardi’s statement provides a glimpse into the way detentions have been conducted as well as the powerful degradation of trust in the system that has led up to two-thirds of immigrants scheduled for hearings to skip them in fear of arrest.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 2019, the 37-year-old Bukele ran for president as a populist outsider promising to defeat crime and corruption in a nation with one of the world’s worst homicide rates and a history of former presidents being charged with crimes.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Milei has had more success taming Argentina’s hyperinflation than first expected, but has been dealing with a brewing currency crisis and several corruption scandals.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their sins will be washed away by the waters of liberty.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe she’s being punished for her sin?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hank isn’t being accused of mere immorality, after all; he’s being accused of rape, which was also a crime back in Kierkegaard’s days.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond the inherent immorality of thoughtlessly torturing and killing birds and wildlife, Death Pipes are an example of the hidden toll that people and their structures are exacting on nature.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This led to the investigation of Gein’s farm that unearthed his atrocities, including Worden’s body being decapitated, flayed, and hung in his shed.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Did Ed Gein have a girlfriend, Adeline Watkins, who introduced him to World War II atrocities?
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But this is no case study in the evils of devil-worshipping musicians.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • On this Sunday, a day meant for worship and peace, such violence is a grave evil.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Depravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depravity. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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