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Recent Examples of depravity The British pop quintet Idles is the band of this moment — a moment defined by an inscrutable youth culture protesting in support of abhorrent political positions or embracing styles of self-abusive depravity. Armond White, National Review, 7 May 2025 Depending on the episode, the Menendez brothers’ relationship was portrayed as either a titillating reflection of their moral depravity, or the harrowing consequence of years of molestation by their father. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025 Is the idea that these scandalous relationships reflect the depravity and decadence of the elites? Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025 But as the play begins, Oswald (Hawke) has returned, now 25, with the depravity having found him anyway. Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depravity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depravity
Noun
  • This natural degradation in data characteristics means an AI that once performed well might start making errors as its environment evolves.
    Ronen Cojocaru, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Despite the degradation of its military capabilities, Iran can leverage proxies, criminal organizations abroad, and cyberattacks to hit Israeli, and possibly U.S., targets.
    Nakissa Jahanbani, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Maybe the game doesn’t die in corruption but in the apathy of those who stop caring.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office claims that corruption tied to these export permits cost the state 12.3 trillion rupiah ($755 million).
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The fact is, Sinners is not about sin in the religious sense but more about America’s most significant secular violation: its refusal to face itself.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Yet no former secretary of state has been more vehemently criticized, most notably for sins of omission and commission in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chile and East Timor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Omari’s father, Hassan (J. Paul Nicholas), is the conservative Muslim governor of Mombasa, fond of attacking the immorality in nightclubs like the Moto Moto, where most of Goddess is set, though he’s withdrawn from his reelection campaign after an illness.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Yair Golan, a former Israeli deputy commander and chairman of the Democrats party in the Knesset, offered on Monday perhaps the strongest political rebuke of Netanyahu’s government yet, accusing the prime minister of leading the nation down a path of immorality and destruction.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The former mayor of a small rural village in Haiti, accused of torturing and killing opponents in his homeland, was sentenced Friday in a Massachusetts federal court to nine years in prison for lying about the atrocities in order to obtain a U.S. green card.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
  • Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7, and their Iranian patrons’ dash toward nuclear weapons, have only strengthened our determination to build a better future for Iran, Israel and the region.
    Shervin Pishevar, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The primary concern of the book was pacifism—the rejection of all violence, even to combat evil.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
  • This national recognition of the evils of slavery comes during a significant backlash against teaching American history, as well as an erosion of other civil rights, namely a rollback of voting rights in places that have high populations of Black voters.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 June 2025

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“Depravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depravity. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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