depraved

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Judge John Dodd KC told Wood Green Crown Court that Chan was a "perverse and depraved" man who had "clearly lost all sense of moral compass".

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

The lasting lesson from the original movie is not that mobs are depraved or that TV is stupid, but that Mr. Schwarzenegger had a special gift for making otherwise terrible efforts watchable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

“To intentionally create a situation where that could have been the outcome, it’s depraved and mind-blowing,” Willis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

And since it was about the only jewelry I’d seen in an entire year, it could have been diamonds—I was that depraved.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver