depravity

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

While depravity is omnipresent, that doesn’t mean it’s all-consuming.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

Both play and novel explore the delights — or depravities — of a secret life.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

Verbinski’s latest plumbed some more graphic territory than the average studio horror property; the depravities are too good to mention here, but those viewers with sensitive teeth would do well to exercise caution.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017

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