Depravity - English meaning

noun

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

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The journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places

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Dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power, for example, accepting money for doing something illegal or immoral

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He was a member of the team looking into allegations of corruption in the local government building…

noun

Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.

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A long weekend at the seaside means drinking, drugging & general debauchery, yes?

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Bad sexual behaviour, drinking too much alcohol, taking drugs, etc.

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A life of debauchery

noun

The state or quality of being degenerate.

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The degeneracy of later roman work

noun

Behaviour that shows very low moral standards

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He wrote about the moral degeneracy that accompanies the accumulation of wealth.

noun

The condition or process of degrading or being degraded.

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A trail of human misery and degradation

noun

The process by which something is made worse, esp. the quality of land

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One of the effects of environmental degradation is the absence of fish in that river.

noun

The fact or state of diverging from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.

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A study of crime and deviance

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The quality of not being usual, and of being generally considered to be unacceptable

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Deviance from any deviance from the budgeted profit and there is an immediate investigation., socia…

noun

Overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living.

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A descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation

noun

The process of gradually disappearing

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He sees a growing dissipation of our cultural values., scientists say the dissipation of the el niñ…

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A way of living that people strongly disapprove of because it is morally bad

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She thanked him lovingly for having put a stop to the dissoluteness of her life., great dissolutene…

noun

The state or quality of being immoral; wickedness.

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He believed his father had been punished by god for his immorality

noun

Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.

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The thing which most disturbed him was the perversion of language and truth

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Sexual behavior that is considered unnatural and morally wrong

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[ c ] what we’re being shown here is not normal family life, it’s a perversion of that.

noun

Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources.

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His financial prudence corrected the profligacies of nero

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The act of spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise

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The profligacy of the west shocked him., years of fiscal profligacy have left the country deeply in…

noun

A lack of shame, especially about something generally considered unacceptable

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I am disgusted at the thoughtlessness and shamelessness displayed by these players., he performed h…

noun

Depraved or wicked behaviour or character.

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Acts of moral turpitude

noun

Immoral or wicked behaviour.

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An open sewer of vice and crime

preposition

As a substitute for.

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The letter was drafted by david hunt, vice bevin who was ill

noun

A metal tool with movable jaws which are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.

Usage examples:

Hold the rail in the vice