Deprave
verb
To make someone or something morally bad.
His friends worried that the city's vices would deprave him.
Often appears as...
- deprave the mind
- deprave society
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To make someone or something morally bad.
His friends worried that the city's vices would deprave him.
Often appears as...
- deprave the mind
- deprave society
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Deprave suggests a strong negative change in moral character, usually for the worse.
The scandalous novel was thought to deprave public morals.
Pro Tip 2/3Societal Impact
Use 'deprave' when discussing negative influences on larger groups, like society or communities.
Corrupt politicians have the power to deprave the very fabric of society.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Deprave' often implies an emotional or shocked reaction to moral corruption.
The news report about the cult's activities left her feeling like the world was depraved.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Deprave suggests a strong negative change in moral character, usually for the worse.
The scandalous novel was thought to deprave public morals.
Pro Tip 2/3Societal Impact
Use 'deprave' when discussing negative influences on larger groups, like society or communities.
Corrupt politicians have the power to deprave the very fabric of society.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Deprave' often implies an emotional or shocked reaction to moral corruption.
The news report about the cult's activities left her feeling like the world was depraved.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Deprave suggests a strong negative change in moral character, usually for the worse.
The scandalous novel was thought to deprave public morals.
Pro Tip 2/3Societal Impact
Use 'deprave' when discussing negative influences on larger groups, like society or communities.
Corrupt politicians have the power to deprave the very fabric of society.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Deprave' often implies an emotional or shocked reaction to moral corruption.
The news report about the cult's activities left her feeling like the world was depraved.
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Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
expression bread and circuses from we tend to think of the gladiatorial games as decadent depraved the self-indulgence of a people in decline yet they are meant to halt all that their way for teaching people not so much how to live
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Inés Hercovich: Why...
Now, if we continue to expect rape to be what it very rarely is -- with the rapist as a depraved lower-class man
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Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...
expression bread and circuses from we tend to think of the gladiatorial games as decadent depraved the self-indulgence of a people in decline yet they are meant to halt all that their way for teaching people not so much how to live
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Inés Hercovich: Why...
Now, if we continue to expect rape to be what it very rarely is -- with the rapist as a depraved lower-class man
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Quote examples
Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.
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Philip Sidney
English Soldier
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Diane Paulus
American Director
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
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Tullian Tchividjian
American Clergyman
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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Anatole France
French Novelist
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Dennis Kucinich
American Politician
So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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Bob Cousy
American Athlete
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
Quote examples
Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.
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Philip Sidney
English Soldier
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Diane Paulus
American Director
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
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Tullian Tchividjian
American Clergyman
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
Quote examples
John Ruskin
English Writer
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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Anatole France
French Novelist
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Dennis Kucinich
American Politician
So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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Bob Cousy
American Athlete
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
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