单词 | depravity |
释义 | depravity (dɪprævɪti ) uncountable noun Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour. [formal] ...the absolute depravity that can exist in war. ...the righteous struggle between decency and depravity. Synonyms: corruption, vice, evil, criminality Collocations: human depravity Moral watchdogs have been attempting to sniff out a causal link between screen violence and human depravity ever since celluloid was invented. Times, Sunday Times You cannot trumpet the goodness of humanity without acknowledging our need to successfully overcome human depravity. Christianity Today The title suggests a depiction of human depravity on a biblical scale. Times, Sunday Times The doctrine of human depravity causes us to lower our expectations of people. Christianity Today Each took only a portion of the scalp, but the exhibition of human depravity was nauseating. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may shock your readers to know that there are people of such profound moral depravity that they peel off the stamps and use them again. Times, Sunday Times They eventually decide to leave the citizens' community, by then tragically turned into an amorphous body where social and moral depravity reigns unmitigated. The Times Literary Supplement They thought of the sinful nature in terms of physical mortality rather than moral depravity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was descending into worse the part of moral depravity and corruption. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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