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Antonyms for depravity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-prav-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpræv ɪ ti



Definition of depravity

Origin :
  • 1640s; see deprave + -ity. Earlier in same sense was pravity.
  • noun corruption, immorality
Example sentences :
  • Though I believe one reason of their depravity is the badness of the actors.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding
  • This circumstance favors the increase of vice and depravity.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • There is not any reasoning by which the evidences of depravity are to be traced in 17.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Her depravity did but stimulate her woman's shrewdness and tact.
  • Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
  • Those were years of depravity, but they were entrancing in memory.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • Such is the piece, and such the depravity of a nations taste.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor » by Stephen Cullen Carpenter
  • The thought that she was to be the sport of his depravity drove me to frenzy.
  • Extract from : « The Crooked House » by Brandon Fleming
  • Remember that Byron was no more celebrated for his beauty than for his depravity.
  • Extract from : « The Wedding Ring » by T. De Witt Talmage
  • Or would she think it merely another instance of his depravity?
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine

Synonyms for depravity

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