How to Use depraved in a Sentence

depraved

adjective

• He acted with depraved indifference to human suffering.
• These are two of the mildest things to happen in this incredibly depraved book.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• There are a lot of very strange, sort of depraved things that you’re asked to do.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 May 2024
• Must a child be put on the stand to explain how your killer's depraved act has traumatized them?
  — Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• Television ‘The Great’ invents depraved games for the idle rich.
  — Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• As a filmmaker, he’s drawn to extremes — to the sensational and the depraved, the sordid and the evil.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
• The film has a cast of thousands of depraved hooligan bikers with rusty weapons and rotten teeth.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2024
• The reporters quote a portion of the statute regarding depraved mind.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• Last year, the president called Kim -- with his abysmal human rights record -- wicked and depraved.
  — Major Garrett, CBS News, 12 June 2018
• By the 2-1 margin, the Court of Appeals found the depraved mind requirement was fulfilled.
  — Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021
• And then, from the depraved depths of my being, came a quiet but clear whisper: Poo Driver.
  — Shaina Loew-Banayan, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
• A preventive war is an act fraught with moral problems, even against a depraved regime like that of Kim Jong Un.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
• In the brain of a very cynical, very depraved person, this could appear to be a pre–Election Day win.
  — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 8 July 2020
• And so, to lie wantonly in bed with a book was considered depraved.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• Just as Léa groomed the teen-age Chéri, so this depraved maman taught Bertrand to swim, fed him hearty meals, and took his virginity.
  — Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2022
• Given the facts in this case, aiming a firearm at the door, and pulling the trigger is legally insufficient to prove depraved mind.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 June 2023
• No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.
  — Avalon Zoppo, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
• No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.
  — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
• The North Korean regime, in many ways a depraved outgrowth of Maoism, goes even further.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• As a result, Woodrow Wilson, the most depraved man ever to occupy the White House, was elected.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 28 Feb. 2021
• The spirit of Manchester -- and the spirit of Britain -- is far mightier than the sick plots of depraved terrorists.
  — CNN, 23 May 2017
• The Weeknd has become one of the biggest pop stars in the world, mostly without abandoning his commitment to the depressed and depraved.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 May 2023
• No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.
  — CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
• Jünger continued to produce depraved scenes in many of his novels.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• After all, there are enough ways for things to go wrong in the wild without adding on depraved locals or Pagan sacrifices.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022
• These things weigh on the soul, as James will learn and just as soon forget as Gabi and her clique lure him into a cycle of depraved, hedonistic crime.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• But after the album arrives, her attention is seized by a photo of Josef Mengele, one of the most depraved doctors of the Third Reich.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Westboro Baptist Church sent three of its members to protest at Sacramento-area schools this week, calling the city one of the most depraved in America.
  — Diana Lambert, sacbee, 9 May 2018
• Any who strayed were considered as depraved, immoral, worthy of death.
  — Brandy Schillace, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
• But what starts off as reckless but inoffensive choices soon take a more depraved turn.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024