depraved vs deprived
Definitions
adjective
- deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
Examples
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
But she said: ‘I had gone to celebrate a friend's birthday and all of a sudden was drawn into some depraved sex show.’
Inevitably, you must wonder whether barbarism is the natural condition of man let loose, or the depraved state of man when corrupted by violence.
Definitions
adjective
- marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
Examples
Nutritionally deprived children experience more health problems than food-secure children including anemia, weight loss, colds, and infections.
It has become axiomatic in this country that children from deprived areas are destined to fail educationally.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey.
