deprave

"I don't think you should censor books but there is this strange anomaly - it's common sense that films can deprave and corrupt, and that books can't."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2012

It has been 14 years since China officially banned console video games, worrying the living-room boxes would dumb down or deprave the brains of Chinese youth.

From Washington Post

The legal definition of obscenity in Great Britain is that which tends "to deprave and corrupt."

From Time Magazine Archive

On the contrary it would so deprave our currency that it would bring ruin, particularly to the wage earners of the country and those on fixed salaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

What else could the Valentinians do with so plain a statement, but seek to deprave it?

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller

For the cessation of the exercise of reason, by no means depraves it.

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen

It is not because war kills that it is the devil, but because it depraves; and it is because it depraves that it is condemned by the religious consciousness.

From Home Missions in Action by Edith H. Allen

It depraves morals and corrupts the family, and as long as it exists, it carries the brand of barbarism.

From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin

Sometimes they produce an insufficient performance of it; and this, by closing an avenue of elimination, poisons the blood, and depraves the organization.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke

And then there is the money, which depraves when it comes in a certain way.”

From Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau

She calls for a “fearless reckoning with depraved art and artists,” which brings us back to the cultural cries surrounding us when we picked up this book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Neill seemed to savor the chance to go deeper, to look more closely at our innate capacity for acts both moral and depraved.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026

“I apologize to all who were hurt by this clearly terrible and depraved individual.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Scenes from my once depraved life lashed through my mind.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Truth is the only basis of virtue; and we cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

From Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Separated from one another in actual date by 50, perhaps by 100 years,742 they must needs have branched off from a common corrupt ancestor, and straightway become exposed continuously to fresh depraving influences.

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon

Ease and luxury were enervating, were depraving me.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

He was cursed with the possession of a power and authority which no man of narrow mind, bitter prejudices, and inordinate self-estimation can exercise without depraving himself as well as injuring the nation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

Besides, how much slovenly thinking, which is slovenly expressed—vexing the public ear and depraving the taste and understanding of the reader—would never appear if the writer had to append his signature to his production?

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake