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depravity

[dih-prav-i-tee] / dɪˈpræv ɪ ti /


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Cavalcanti’s, no less brilliant in its execution, looks through the glass darkly, with painful scenes of long-ago squalor and depravity that sadly echo our own.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

And one post-pardon case is already sticking out for sheer depravity.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2025

Even with the debauchery and depravity so vividly portrayed by Wambaugh, unsung acts of goodwill and tenderness emerge through the blue fog.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2025

At the Daily Beast, Jill Filipovic engages in some needed truth-telling about the depravity of the propaganda video:

From Salon Feb. 25, 2025

With my English notes perched on the armrest, I pick up where I left off: the depravity of Caliban.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

When given the option, the media industry’s financiers tend to embrace contraction, which means it’s much more likely that automation will unleash a fresh slate of wild depravities in the media.

From Slate Apr. 12, 2023

In his application to Metro, Birk presented his large-scale public art, not the gallery works that included the depravities of war series.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 18, 2023

Just listen to the seething passions and depravities of “Wise Blood,” Flannery O’Connor’s vicious satire of religiosity in the Deep South, and featuring a menagerie of grotesque characters by Pinchot.

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 2022

“That they are better off than we; and we brave our unmerited poverty stoically, whilst they sail yachts, and indulge in God knows what depravities in boathouses.”

From Washington Post Mar. 6, 2018

Eisman knew more about that market, its characters, and its depravities than anyone Lippmann had ever spoken with.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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