How To Use Deprave In A Sentence

He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
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.
But deep within this depraved human being is a need for cohesion and clarity.

There are some sick, sick people in this world and I do not want to be part of their quest to find the depraved things they are looking for.
And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents.
This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition. Think Progress » ‘The Hero of Guantanamo’ Speaks
Most people would have been destroyed by the depraved acid attack on her. The Sun
For several years he himself has been voluntarily living in a depraved state.
They are sick and depraved and have convinced themselves they are right and the rest of us are wrong.
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Which is an act of war and defense and which is an act of depraved inhumanity?
That she was mentally ill should have set into motion a whole series of actions and reactions on the part of hospital and social services professionals–none of whom could be bothered to reach out to this woman and help her–a clear application of the term depraved indifference if I’ve ever heard it. Three good comments on the Rowland case
What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
Who cares if he robbed from those deprave life from others. 2010 January « Monster Scifi Show Blog
It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before. The Old Curiosity Shop
Two members had remained exceedingly hostile to the case, and because of their refusal to compromise the jury declared: ‘We are unanimously of the opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.’ Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
And what I draw from it is that this is a man with a depraved heart and a complete disregard for human life.
Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea. Off to the Races
But on the off-chance that the noontime hot-sidewalk abandoner stumbles across this page, you little shit, do send me an email so I can say a few inappropriate and depravedly nasty words to you directly. A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. On The Art of Reading
If you're squeamish or easily offended, this one is a lock to knock you off the deep end, as Daughters of Darkness is bathed in depraved moments. GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 11/1.
Most people would have been destroyed by the depraved acid attack on her. The Sun
That's the phenomenon that sociologists call the medicalization of deviance and that Steven Sondheim described crisply in "Gee, Officer Krupke," I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived. Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?
The law, whose stated purpose was to suppress pornography while protecting literature, retained more or less the previous definition of obscenity, as that which, taken as a whole, tended to corrupt and deprave.
Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Similarly, the holiness codes of Leviticus thread down from an all-encompassing mandate to behave distinctly from their foreign (and depraved) neighbors.
It was returning to the gratification of a depraved appetite in the use of tobacco; and I have no hesitancy in declaring it as my opinion, that could the causes of the many acts of suicide, committed in the United States, be investigated, it would be found, that many instances were owing to the effects of _tobacco_ upon the nervous system. An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
Nothing tends more to the blinding and perverting of the understanding than the corruption and depravedness of the will and affections. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The film is about a psychiatrist who helps the police capture a depraved serial killer.
Because the action of depraved (disordered) faculties and powers, would not, even in heaven itself, be conformed to the divine law, and _could not be acceptable to God_ In our natural state, moreover, we have not the _qualifications requisite for the enjoyment of heaven_, having no spiritual appetites. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
Do we see ourselves as totally depraved? Christianity Today
It is not news that we have depraved people among us; nor is it news that they like to taunt society with their combination of relish and indifference.
They may be a depraved tangle but it's the disparate concoction and uninhibited mindset that improbably make this band one of the most inventive and mystifyingly unsettling live acts I've seen in ages.
Do we see ourselves as totally depraved? Christianity Today
After reading McCarthy's take on the unspeakably evil acts perpetrated by a group of depraved 19th-century American marauders from the Old West, I queasily figured it was better to write this post than try to eat breakfast. Dave Astor: If All Books Were as Violent as Cormac McCarthy Books
This was a work, infamous in its time, of the most depraved and retrograde Jesuitism, which purported to find a grand conspiracy of Freemasons and other subversives in the overthrow of the Bourbons. Reactionary Prophet
Into this depraved world of addiction come electronic cigarettes. Times, Sunday Times
Her name was never mentioned in the family after she slid down a rainspout one night and eloped to marry a depraved scoundrel who drove through there on a red wagon with tinware inside that he would trade for old rags. Somewhere in Red Gap
The Berlin Wall was the visible symbol of the gulag, the pogrom, everything deprave and inhumane of the collectivism and the Soviet Union. The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Do we see ourselves as totally depraved? Christianity Today
Then entered the guilt of Adam's sin imputed to posterity, and a general corruption and depravedness of nature. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with sex.
Kill youself you pathetic depraves piece of putrid pigshit. Think Progress » Gen. Paul Eaton Comes Out For Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Someone who can kill a child like that must be totally depraved.
The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
This article is as unambiguous as it is vile what kind of person hopes that an entire region of the world turns into a "cauldron" -- but leave that to the side for now, because the focus here is Ledeen's lying, not the depraved nature of his views. Archive 2006-11-01
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press ... On The Art of Reading
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the Honour of Parliament depraved, the Writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. Religio Medici
Legend tells us that the golden civilisation became so corrupt and depraved that it was destroyed by the angry gods - but did the city ever exist at all?
In actual, main operative Pygmy co-opted by shallow, corrupt, depraved host country. 2009 August 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews
It is you and the like of you that deprave and demoralize youth and prepare criminals for the gallows.
I have to engage the passions of others by painting him as vicious or odious or depraved: hateful in general.
What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
But obviously, if any were wise or depraved enough to say that they preferred indolence to a ribbon (and there would be many such) they would have to be allowed to continue to lead idle lives, sponging on their neighbours; perhaps some who had at last attained the ribbon might burst into a blaze of faineantise (laziness) in order that they might without distraction savour the pleasure which accompanies consideration. LewRockwell.com
Like their contemporaries in the press, the schoolroom, and elsewhere, literary writers helped to construct Irish-Americans as innately depraved.
He claimed that the book had depraved him, but it transpired that he had only read it because he had been asked to appear as a witness for the prosecution.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. Religio Medici
The depraved plot is shot with a schizophrenic camera incorporating elements of peepshows, montage and silent horror films amongst others.
Attend to the demands of appetite, but use all your judgment in determining whether it is a natural, undepraved craving of the system which speaks, or an acquired and vicious taste, and give or withhold accordingly; and, above all, never eat when you have _no appetite_. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Be
Have you noticed how costumes and masks are getting generally more bloody, gory, and depraved each year?
No one should be in any doubt about his depraved intentions
On the other hand, the jury may have thought that they could convict only if the book tended to deprave and corrupt the average reader or the majority of its readers.
What we might consider depraved is just more of the usual to Bill. The Ultimate Solution -- Eric Norden
For, as Aristotle says rightly, the moving of laughter is a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's nature without a disease. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
You have committed embracery, theft, arson, perjury, adultery, murder -- every crime in the calendar and every excess known to the sensual and depraved, including my learned friend, the District Attorney. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
The most vulnerable members of our society fall victim to the repulsive and detestable warlords and gang masters who conceal their depraved activity behind closed doors.
How, and why, does pornography that depraves and corrupts unwary children, and exploits women, go untrammeled through the Web?
But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious.
While I escaped his lecherous depraved mauling, other young men were not so lucky.
It is to be looked on as a great issue of the wisdom, goodness, and love of God, that by manifold ways and means he is pleased to restrain the sons of men from running forth into that compass of excess and riot which the depravedness of their nature would carry them out unto with violence. Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a movie so evil and depraved it has caused him to foam in insensate rage without having seen it.
The depraved dad of two was arrested and his computer was seized. The Sun
He can not distinguish good people from bad, and keeps depraved company all day long.
Bonobos also known as pigmy chimpanzees use heterosexual and homosexual sex to settle disagreements, engaging in such depraved acts as oral sex and "penis fencing. Darwin's slutty primates
Interesting, cos they are not portrayed as a tight, likeable team, but a nest of corruption and depraved power-to-commerce cynicism.
It is plain then, that the depravedness of man's state stands chiefly in this, that sense takes upon itself to do the business of the mind and intellectual powers, and we consent it should be so. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
If you would care to learn about the depraved human "pigpen" that regularly occurs in Nancy Pelosi's district in California, Google "Zombietime" and click on "Up Your Alley Fair" in the left column. TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
This seems very wicked, very depraved, on the part of these persons, especially the sticking of pins in their bare arms; but even our young dukeling Edgar says -- The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
More conventionally, Squire Hamilton represents a type common in Hammer horrors of the period: the depraved, decadent aristocrat.
But if you asked them ‘well, you've seen it and have you been depraved and corrupted by it?’
Certes, such is the unhappy condition of sinful nature, that not merely in acts that are morally doubtful it adopts the worse conclusion; but often it depraves by iniquitous subversion those which have the appearance of rectitude. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
depraved criminals
According to this model, conversion is seen as a momentous transformation of life from a depraved past to a sacred present and a promised future.
Many are also being paid by certain depraved, degenerate factions within the German government. Scientologists, WWII Star of David spoof
For their troubles, Besant and Bradlaugh stood in the dock accused of circulating obscene material calculated to deprave public morals and faced the likelihood of a lengthy stretch in jail. Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
The right wing US Bible belt has also had its say and branded the show ‘depraved’, but one thing's for sure, the majority of the American public are lapping it up.
The old phrase in English law defining obscene publications was ‘material likely to deprave and corrupt.’
Lord Horror was the last novel to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts as likely to corrupt and deprave those who read it (the decision was finally overturned on appeal). Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing Religio Medici (1643): Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. XI. Of Selection
Had not almost every man suffered by the press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly, imprinted: complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. Religio Medici
Keith specialised in depraved characters who committed acts of extreme brutality while sermonising on the virtues of a good and moral life.
See also the Sages who noted that the Hebrews had sunken to the lowest levels of the sexually and morally depraved Egyptian culture — having entered “49 of the 50 gates of impurity”, and that the reason they were taken out so abruptly is the danger that had they remained any longer, they would have sunken past the level of being able to be redeemend — as indeed 80% of them already had (seeRashi). The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh
Siberia, idleness depraves people, and often calls forth ugly feelings toward life. Mother
A sustained attack from a foe more insidious and corrupting than anything that had assailed our shores before; a demonic force that destroyed our mental health, that could deprave all who came into contact with it. The Evil Dead, The Living Dead and the dead wrong
As her reliance on the townspeople grows, they make increasingly depraved demands on the woman.
His extramarital love affairs seem to have been Platonic; and although he once spoke of the “brutal sensuality”which “leads me so close to the greatest sins,” he placed what he called his faculty for “depraved fantasy” in the servicenot of love but of power. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
The Bishop said that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel preached to it by consecrated prima donnas and professional tenors and altos and bassos, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force. In His Steps
Anyway, attacking a leader's critics (you call it "depraved") because our country's enemies agree with them on some points is an ancient, cynical smear tactic. Sound Politics: Giuliani is looking interesting
And he constantly tried to justify his depraved acts. The Sun
Also, that depraved concupiscences are not sin, but certain concreate conditions and essential properties of the nature, or that those defects and that huge evil just set forth by us is not sin on whose account man, if not grafted into Christ, is a child of wrath. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
They at least raise questions and we should try to answer them, I much prefer that to seeing posts from the likes of that depraved "enquirer On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
This, I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by Transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved Copy at the Press. Religio Medici
The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed.
This I confess, about seven years past, with some others of affinity thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction, I had at leisurable hours composed; which being communicated unto one, it became common unto many, and was by transcription successively corrupted, untill it arrived in a most depraved copy at the press. XI. Of Selection
Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
The origin of these adulteries is from the depraved will connate to man, or from hereditary evil, which a man blindly obeys after he is capable of exercising his own judgement, not at all considering whether they are evils or not; wherefore it is said, that he does not think them of importance enough to consult the understanding respecting them: but the origin of the adulteries which are called adulteries of reason, is from a perverse understanding; and these adulteries are committed by those who confirm themselves in the persuasion that they are not evils of sin. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
QUOTATION: Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Quotations
In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic. Old Calabria
It is not because war kills that it is the devil, but because it depraves; and it is because it depraves that it is condemned by the religious consciousness. Home Missions in Action
Such a universally useful item should not be regarded as depraved.
No matter how corrupt and depraved it is in practice, the organisation's sunny utopian image endures.
I didn't know if I could fully deprave myself with an audience if I could see said audience. Whoring
Listen, for example, to Sir Thomas Brownes excuse for publishing Religio Medici (1643): Had not almost every man suffered by the press or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. XI. Of Selection
Ah, the sledgehammer irony of the truly depraved wingnut amoralist. Me and Bella.
For all the fun she has setting up a morally depraved de Vere as the one true Bard, Freed lends support to the conventional storyline: the son of a Stratford glover somehow penetrates the Elizabethan stage world.
Bearing in mind that one excised section of the Wasteland referred to a waiter and some unnatural practices with a dog, I think ‘depraved’ is probably a very good word for it.
But somehow or other we have to attempt to understand the origins of this depraved, evil behaviour.
The responsibility for these depraved acts lies with the perpetrators and no one else. Times, Sunday Times
Ya get the feeling, though, that maybe Myers has had enough of Austin and Dr. Evil and the gang -- he wraps things up, all of it: the superspy / archvillain codependency between Austin and Evil, the depraved father / son relationship between Evil and Scott (the always sublime Seth Green: FlickFilosopher.com
The depraved dad of two was arrested and his computer was seized. The Sun
He never had any time for such fripperies and actively discouraged us kids from wasting our pocket money in such a depraved manner.
It certainly isn't because I want to turn my innocent little children into depraved chocoholics.
What the deuce moved him to be so snappish and depravedly bent against the good fathers of the true religion? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Yet deliberation may strengthen Western resolve to punish an outlaw regime for its depraved attacks on a captive population. Times, Sunday Times
The film is about a psychiatrist who helps the police capture a depraved serial killer.
The habit of gambling engendered by it ruins the temper, depraves the morals, and keeps up a constant state of excitement at variance with any settled and serious occupation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
What barbarous, villainous, and depraved acts did he commit that labor leaders and heads of national liberal groups denounce him as the enemy of minorities, the poor, women, and the environment?
I say occasionally because the majority of what I tweet (some would say "bleat") covers subjects near and dear to my sophomoric soul: genitals, bowel movements or just plain obscure references to even more obscure behavior both real and fictional that I (and my cadre of equally depraved followers) find amusing. Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
And he constantly tried to justify his depraved acts. The Sun
Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. On The Art of Reading
Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
If we speak of the corruption and depravedness of human nature, they are words of course that drop from us now and then, and some slight notions of the matter hover in our minds; but how few are there to whom it is a familiar thing to roll themselves in the dust before the Lord, in the sense of that vile and abject state, which man in common now is in? The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
To the received doctrine of our natural depravedness and disability to any thing that is good; yea, by evident unstrained consequence, overthrowing that fundamental article of original sin: yea, (5.) The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious.
She'd think a grosbeak was a depraved person with a large nose. A Girl of the Limberlost
Pornography is sometimes defined in court as material that tends to deprave and corrupt.
The Legislature can hardly have contemplated that a book which tended to corrupt and deprave the average reader or majority of those likely to read it could be justified as being for the public good on any ground.
The sad reality of sucharrogantly depraved morons as Skelton is he and the multitude of DINOs that are mere tools of the global corporatists are amongthe hundreds from both parties whodon't even speak to Dennis Kucinich when they pass him in the halls! "That really pisses me off down there, those assholes"
He does, though, manage finally to confess that ‘I don't think I've yet been depraved and corrupted,’ which prompts him to laugh.
For Gilbert Gildersleeve, accidental manslaughterer as he was, was not by any means a depraved or wholly heartless person. What's Bred in the Bone
Obscene in the sense of calculated to disgust rather than to deprave or corrupt, yes. She Closed Her Eyes
Herein I say, consists, in very great part, the corruption and depravedness of man's present state. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
We're not this weird, cranky, fanged minority that is secretly drinking blood in the name of its depraved godlessness!
Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
Yet deliberation may strengthen Western resolve to punish an outlaw regime for its depraved attacks on a captive population. Times, Sunday Times
Now that they terrorise, murder, and, frankly, slaughter innocent children, we are at the most depraved end of the spectrum of all.
But in these admissions I am making no concession to the believer in original sin; for he regards human nature as such as congenitally depraved, and therefore can take no cognisance of exceptional cases of congenital depravity, cases which by breaking the rule that the new-born child is morally and spiritually healthy, may be said to prove it. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
Bashing France with accusations of depraved perversion and secular cosmopolitanism is a time honored custom among them. Matthew Yglesias » Romney’s Seven Year Itch
On the contrary, Britain has advanced by leaps and bounds since the days when Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned because it might, in the judge's view, deprave and corrupt one's servants.
You must needs think then that it is a great thing that must work the cure of man, who is thus involved in so great an abyss of depravedness and misery. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
Sometimes you encounter leftist paranoia so utterly deranged, so shamelessly depraved, you don't know wether to laugh or cry.
Be prepared to be asked to engage in all sorts of depraved activities.
Into this depraved world of addiction come electronic cigarettes. Times, Sunday Times
This intemperance, so prevalent, depraves the appetite to such a degree, that a wanton stimulus is necessary to rouse it; but the parental design of nature is forgotten, and the mere person, and that for a moment, alone engrosses the thoughts. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
He carried a light cane, surmounted by the head and shoulders of a depraved-looking female in oxidized silver as a handle. My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny
Oh, whoops, it turns out I didn't recall correctly - such depraved weddings have, to my knowledge, always been legal.
It is taken to mean black magic, or the cavortings of depraved charlatans—or both. The Templar Revelation
Quite often orgiastic too, not to mention 'acceptably' (so some would have it) depraved. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Your fear-mongering and smearing has soared beyond the depraved, leaped over the humiliating boundaries of pathetic, teetered off the ledge of shamelessness, bounced off a steaming mountain of cynicism, and finally boomeranged back into your mouths where it incestuously mates with your desperation and hypocrisy only to be reproduced by your next, inevitable smear sound bite. Wajahat Ali: Dear John McCain, A Farewell...
These five persons must then say whether the book or periodical is ‘indecent’, which word ‘shall be construed as including calculated to excite sexual passions or to suggest or incite to sexual immorality or in any other way to corrupt or deprave’, or whether, if it be not ‘indecent’ it inculcates ‘principles contrary to public morality’, or ‘tends to be injurious or detrimental to or subversive of public morality’. Later Articles and Reviews
It keeps the spotlight on those who prefer to lurk in a depraved, secret world. The Sun
Our own system of jurisprudence differentiates between crimes and torts and also takes into consideration such concepts as intent, depraved indifference, negligence, gross negligence, etc.
Perhaps the lie drew its life from a human longing for those chills of horror which are depraved forms of religious awe.
And they say that these things don't deprave or corrupt.
‘To plan and execute the violent attack on her sleeping husband was really a most depraved act,’ he said.
Had not almost every man suffered by the press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly, imprinted: complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. Religio Medici
The responsibility for these depraved acts lies with the perpetrators and no one else. Times, Sunday Times
Locating the action in the dark recesses of Ian's mind, his depraved fantasy-land becomes the symbolical epicentre of mankind's propensity toward evil.
As long as the brain is at rest, the man enjoys his reason, but the depravement of the brain arises from phlegm and bile, either of which you may recognize in this manner: Those who are mad from phlegm are quiet, and do not cry out nor make a noise; but those from bile are vociferous, malignant, and will not be quiet, but are always doing something improper. On The Sacred Disease
He sinned, and his nature was thereby corrupted and depraved; and this corruption is conveyed to all his posterity.
When with the marks of the rods imprinted in his flesh the youth rushed out into the public street, loudly complaining of the depravedness and inhumanity of the usurer; a vast number of people, moved by compassion for his early age, and indignation at his barbarous treatment, reflecting at the same time on their own lot and that of their children, flocked together into the forum, and from thence in a body to the senate-house. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Because things good in their institution may he depraved in their practice -- 'ergone nihil ceremoniarum rudioribus dabitur, ad juvandam eorum imperitiam?' The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Someone who can kill a child like that must be totally depraved.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Before Dahmer became known as a depraved serial killer, he served short prison sentences for indecent exposure and molesting a minor. CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2008
What if she is not a depraved sadist but an insecure character desperate for approval?
After the victory, the corrupters and the depravement-enablers are made into soap. Archive 2007-08-01
To satisfy this genus of men, women are made systematically voluptuous, and though they may not all carry their libertinism to the same height, yet this heartless intercourse with the sex, which they allow themselves, depraves both sexes, because the taste of men is vitiated; and women, of all classes, naturally square their behaviour to gratify the taste by which they obtain pleasure and power. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Pornography is defined by its ` tendency to deprave or corrupt '.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the Honour of Parliament depraved, the Writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. Religio Medici
This honourable fellow actually took care that what had been ill-gained should be ill-spent, nor was anything left him from his too ample fortune, save his depraved ambition and his boundless appetite. The Defense
I'm just speechless at that level of depraved planning.
With cruel cunning and ingenuity surpassed only by man, this depraved and unprincipled insect perforates the struggling caterpillar, and deposits her eggs in the living, writhing body of her victim. Parasite Rex
In fact for a lamentably depraved condition of all the bodily health, such as characterises advanced locomotor ataxy, and allied spinal degradations leading to general physical failure. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
As one writer of the period quaintly puts it, "The gospel spirit is not yet so gloriously arisen as to seek them more than theirs," while another in stronger terms affirms, "To the shame of the Christian name, no pains have ever been taken to convert them to Christianity; on the contrary, their morals are perverted and corrupted by the sad example they daily have of its depraved professors residing in their towns. Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina
It isn't the first time he has shown a depraved indifference toward responsibility, and sadly, it may not be the last.
It keeps the spotlight on those who prefer to lurk in a depraved, secret world. The Sun
Likewise, the English statute on obscenity specifically refers to material that tends ‘to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter’.
By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments.
How much more depraved is a Traci Lords video than a video of dogfighting? The Volokh Conspiracy » Big First Amendment win in United States v. Stevens
Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age. Suffer the little children to come unto me « Anglican Samizdat

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