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Recent Examples of depravity But also the endless torture, rape, and other depravity. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025 The finished film raises fascinating, sometimes troubling questions about the tenuous line that can exist between journalism and vigilantism, as well as our strange fascination with watching stories about depravity. Brent Lang, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025 The series, which stars Kaitlyn Dever, is slick and stylized, and illuminates the depravity of its scammer story as well as the horrors young women face in the health care system. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 The depravity of human greed at its most despicable and depraved on full display. Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depravity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depravity
Noun
  • Service degradation caused in some attacks has lasted multiple days, with some remaining ongoing as of the time this post went live.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Bristol Myers Squibb is leveraging AI and machine learning to advance protein degradation science.
    Tina Chakrabarty, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The unaccountable bureaucracy and bloated government that find a home there, and the public and private corruption that go along with them, face serious scrutiny and genuine antagonism for the first time in a while.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Countries with weak economic growth, high inflation, widespread corruption, and fragile institutions face the greatest risk.
    Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Luther taught instead that God freely forgives the sins of believers.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The pope’s hospitalization comes during the Vatican’s celebration of the jubilee, a tradition in the Catholic Church dedicated to the remission of sins that occurs every 50 years.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Segregationists resisted integration by calling it a threat, arguing that interracial relationships would foster immorality.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Just as important, many have come to understand that the outside world hardly resembles the wasteland of deprivation, immorality, and criminality that official propaganda depicts.
    Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2016
Noun
  • Throughout Assad’s rule, the Alawite sect became increasingly linked, in the eyes of his opponents, to the atrocities committed by his regime during the Syrian civil war.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The new government should thus start by creating mechanisms to formally acknowledge the Assad regime’s atrocities and begin redressing them.
    PATRICK VINCK, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • America’s stable vision of the world relied on the belief that good and evil are clearly delineated—a belief that was easier to maintain in the absence of complicating information.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Depravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depravity. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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