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Recent Examples of depravity Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2025 The letters depict a landscape of despair as the depths of Nazi depravity began to become clearer, but the options for escape had dwindled. Nina Siegal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025 Indeed, one of the most famous stories about him is his depravity in condemning a soldier, Uriah the Hittite, to a brutal death so that David could take Uriah’s wife, Bat-Sheva, as his own. Jacob F. Love, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025 But also the endless torture, rape, and other depravity. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depravity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depravity
Noun
  • Using her celebrity, Tabei was also an activist for environmental change in high-altitude regions, having grown appalled by the degradation of fragile mountain glaciers that was being caused by the mountaineering industry.
    Jenny Hall, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
  • To others, a symbol of degradation and objectification.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The Boston City Council will take up a resolution this week that calls for disgraced Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson’s removal from the body in the wake of her guilty plea to two federal corruption charges tied to a City Hall kickback scheme.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
  • However, rumors swirled about his luxury lifestyle and possible corruption and eventually led to federal charges in 2007.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Harrison’s sin is not trading Doncic, but demanding so little in return from the Lakers.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2025
  • If Sam is wrong, his journalistic sin is unpardonable.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The film cares more for Romy’s enveloping sense of self than the depths of her immorality.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • During the mid-credits scene, there are several reflections on Sammie’s life as a young man, plus a tempting offer from the vampires to give the elderly bluesman immorality.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Our government continues to give Israel billions in military aid with which to carry out these atrocities.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
  • Less than half a dozen countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands, and Armenia have recognized these atrocities.
    Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Nature, light, darkness, mundane rituals, violence, ambiguity, and evil, in such forms as death, tribalism, and xenophobia.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
  • Two Prosecutors follows in that tradition, being a very slow and very talky chamber piece that could be the most terrifying comedy that Aki Kaurismäki never made, or a Chaplin-esque horror film about the evils of bureaucracy in a world ruled by morons.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 May 2025

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“Depravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depravity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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