depraved

Example Sentences

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Yet its parties, even at their most decadent and depraved, were never quite cool.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Intimately acquainted with Richard’s malignity, these ruined royals know only too well the toll of his depraved machinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

We know there will be no real consequences for this depraved behavior — only continued normalization.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

The lasting lesson from the original movie is not that mobs are depraved or that TV is stupid, but that Mr. Schwarzenegger had a special gift for making otherwise terrible efforts watchable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

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