Thesaurus / depravity
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The publications were visually striking, filled with stories and images that illustrated the depravity and cruelty of the plantation system.
THE TORMENTED RISE OF ABOLITION IN 1830’S AMERICAJ. D. DICKEYMARCH 1, 2022TIMEIf semi-mortal, prewar monsters were metaphors for psychological and societal ailments, the human monsters of the ’60s and ’70s embraced explicit depravity and violence.
THE HORROR CENTURYAJA ROMANOOCTOBER 25, 2021VOXHe bet against the video and everyone else who witnessed his depravity.
DEREK CHAUVIN’S GUILTY AND SO IS THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEMGOLDIE TAYLORAPRIL 20, 2021THE DAILY BEASTWomen are capable of not just of achievement but also of depravity.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO SEE WOMEN AS CAPABLE … OF TERRIBLE ATROCITIESLGBTQ-EDITORNOVEMBER 21, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSAnd the truth of the depravity of man and his inability to restore himself to God's favour ought to be maintained.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMBonnebault was squint-eyed and his physical appearance did not belie his depravity.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEClaude Vignon, the great critic, especially appreciated this woman's intellectual depravity.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEThat was her idea, I assure you,—my own depravity could suggest nothing more euphonious than Canajoharie.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONHow deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence?
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTERIt signifies a state of depravity,—a quality, and not an act,—and never can be properly translated by "adultery" or "fornication."
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOYWORDS RELATED TO DEPRAVITY
- abuse
- affection
- affliction
- ailment
- badness
- complaint
- condition
- cruelty
- damage
- depravity
- destruction
- disease
- disorder
- evil
- harm
- hurt
- illness
- indisposition
- infirmity
- injury
- insult
- malady
- malaise
- malice
- mischief
- misery
- pain
- sickness
- suffering
- syndrome
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- abomination
- antisocial behavior
- atrocity
- breach
- break
- caper
- case
- corruption
- criminality
- delict
- delictum
- delinquency
- depravity
- dereliction
- enormity
- evil
- evil behavior
- fast one
- fault
- felony
- hit
- immorality
- infraction
- infringement
- iniquity
- job
- lawlessness
- malefaction
- malfeasance
- misconduct
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- mortal sin
- offense
- outrage
- racket
- scandal
- sneak
- tort
- transgression
- trespass
- unlawful act
- vice
- villainy
- violation
- wickedness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
- abuses
- affections
- afflictions
- ailments
- badness
- complaints
- conditions
- cruelties
- damages
- depravities
- destructions
- diseases
- disorders
- evils
- harm
- hurt
- illnesses
- indispositions
- infirmities
- injuries
- insults
- maladies
- malaises
- malice
- mischief
- miseries
- pains
- sicknesses
- sufferings
- syndromes
- trials
- tribulations
- troubles
- unpleasantnesses
- wickedness
- woes
- wrongs
- boorishness
- brutishness
- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- fleshliness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- libidinousness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- raunchiness
- ribaldry
- ruttishness
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- unchastity
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
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