depraved
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You would respect the movie more if it stuck with its depraved indifference to civilized behavior, rather than attempting a death-bed conversion to decency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He seemed to savor the chance to go deeper, to look more closely at our innate capacity for acts both moral and depraved.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
He also accused Donaldson of telling lies many times over the years and added, he never imagined the former party leader could have been so "depraved".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
I could only imagine how many haggard and depraved eyes were regarding me hungrily from behind the closed shutters.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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