depraved

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of deprave

comparative more depraved · superlative most depraved

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

   a depraved killer

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   The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.

   2009, Neil M. Gorsuch, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, page 57

2. Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.

   You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

   Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

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   I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.

   Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

3. archaicDistorted out of the normal course; abnormal.

   The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]

   1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence

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   There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

   1916, Veterinary Medicine, volume 11, page 759