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
Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
“I apologize to all who were hurt by this clearly terrible and depraved individual.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
And since it was about the only jewelry I’d seen in an entire year, it could have been diamonds—I was that depraved.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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