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
“I apologize to all who were hurt by this clearly terrible and depraved individual.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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
The trial judge described him as "depraved", "arrogant" and a "bully".
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, depraved specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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