depravity
IPA: dɪprˈævʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
- (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
- (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
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Examples of "depravity" in Sentences
- Do you know how much sexual depravity is in the Bible?
- Total depravity is the fallen state of man as a result of original sin.
- He saw in the Jews a continuing moral depravity he did not see in Catholics.
- Her execution was represented as an act of German barbarism and moral depravity.
- It could be argued that this sort of easy portrayal of the conflict between decency and depravity is false to the actual content of evil, a sentimentalized response.
- There would come a point where I think faith takes over, where people left to suffer in depravity (like the Ore ship) would have to believe that any portent of hope is more than chance.
- There are some who pretend to be so learned, in what they call the depravity of human nature, that, after having heard you speak thus admirably in favour of virtue, they would think it more than an equal chance that you are one of the wickedest of men. '
- As someone else mentioned, this kind of logic and moral depravity is probably matched only by al Qaeda itself, who see their maiming and murder of innocents as entirely morally justified because of the "existential threat" that the US poses to them and theirs (in their sick minds).
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