Thesaurus / deprave
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No possible amount of good to ever so many can make it right to deprave ever so few; happiness and misery cannot be measured so!
THE MINISTER'S WOOINGHARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt prevents also such instruction in the classics as must necessarily deprave the estimate of woman.
THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALLPower and riches were chiefly to be dreaded on account of their tendency to deprave the possessor.
WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATIONCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWNThey would corrupt the morals, debase the manners, and deprave the tastes of the young.
LIFE AND LABORS OF ELDER JOHN KLINE, THE MARTYR MISSIONARYJOHN KLINESuch engagements are always dangerous; sometimes they deprave the character of the man or woman.'
NEW GRUB STREETGEORGE GISSINGYou would think that this predicament must deprave, and so without doubt it does; and yet it is not wholly depraving.
THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSBut let nobody conclude therefore that Mr Redford is a monster, whose policy it is to deprave the theatre.
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSIONGEORGE BERNARD SHAWA religion that does not purify the home cannot regenerate the race; one that depraves the home is certain to deprave humanity.
TWO OLD FAITHSJ. MURRAY MITCHELL AND WILLIAM MUIRRoman policy and Gothic ignorance, Grecian ingenuity and Syrian asceticism, had contributed to deprave her.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYNo possible amount of good to ever so many can make it right to deprave ever so few;—happiness and misery cannot be measured so!
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 4, NO. 23, SEPTEMBER, 1859VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DEPRAVE
- abase
- abuse
- adulterate
- animalize
- bastardize
- blemish
- blight
- bribe
- contaminate
- damage
- debase
- debauch
- decay
- decompose
- deface
- defile
- deform
- degrade
- demean
- demoralize
- deprave
- depreciate
- despoil
- disfigure
- disgrace
- dishonor
- fix
- grease palm
- harm
- hurt
- ill-treat
- impair
- infect
- injure
- lower
- lure
- maltreat
- mar
- mistreat
- misuse
- outrage
- pull down
- putrefy
- ravage
- reduce
- rot
- ruin
- spoil
- square
- stain
- suborn
- subvert
- taint
- undermine
- violate
- vitiate
- warp
- waste
- backsliding
- coming apart at seams
- corroding
- corrupting
- declining
- decreasing
- depraving
- descending
- disimproving
- disintegrating
- dying on vine
- falling off
- going downhill
- going to pieces
- going to the dogs
- lapsing
- lessening
- regressing
- retrogressing
- returning
- reverting
- rotting
- sinking
- slipping
- vitiating
- worsening
- abase
- belittle
- bemean
- bench
- break
- bump
- bust
- canker
- cast down
- cheapen
- corrupt
- cut down to size
- debase
- debauch
- declass
- decry
- degenerate
- demean
- demote
- depose
- deprave
- derogate
- deteriorate
- detract
- diminish
- disbar
- discredit
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disparage
- downgrade
- humble
- impair
- injure
- lessen
- lower
- mudsling
- pan
- pervert
- put down
- reduce
- rule out
- run down
- shoot down
- sink
- slam
- take down
- take down a peg
- tear down
- vitiate
- weaken
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