How to Use depravity in a Sentence

depravity

noun

• People were shocked by the depravity of her actions.
• He was sinking into a life of utter depravity.
• What greater depravity could there be than to declare war on Dad just for the throne?
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
• On the one hand, Christians should not forget the depth of human depravity, the sin that contributed to the death of the Son of God.
  — Robert Barron, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• The point here is deception mixed with a touch of depravity.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• Somebody who could have done this to her and then live the high life is just a testament to his coldness and depravity.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2019
• The depravity is crowded out by the mob’s blind hatred of black people.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
• And by the way, a shocking story of media depravity on a most solemn day for this country.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
• As such, it's packed to the brim with wild and unhinged scenes of both lavish decadence and appalling depravity.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The real depravity of the plot is in how his demise plays out: Through the course of the film, James dies exactly 100 times at the hands of a white police officer.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
• That such depravity would come from Trump’s son is no surprise.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• The reason was the depravity that existed here, from the Russian era.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• What looks like depravity to Maeve is Dolores’s sense of purpose.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 4 June 2018
• Still, the detective couldn’t help but marvel at the grownups’ depravity.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2021
• But even in that same account, authored in 1173, the monk was not content to limit the image of depravity to the Jews of a single city in eastern England.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• In the West, the Antilles are viewed as a locus of hardship and disorder, of victimhood and depravity.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• Even the silly gryllus, a medieval monster with a face and legs but no body, was a symbol of human depravity.
  — Marylynn Salmon, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• Needless to say, the party at home is going to look a little different than the decadence and depravity of the infield.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2020
• The book is informative, stark and relentlessly grim; the depravity of some of the crimes can be shocking.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Allies used these trials to demonstrate their commitment to the rule of law and to expose the defendants’ depravity.
  — Brian Finucane, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
• In his memoir Kiedis gets away with writing about debauchery, depravity, and drug abuse in a way that reads like a Behind the Music episode on steroids.
  — Lisawhill, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2019
• For some of us, a dirty house suggests depravity when it’s owned by a woman but can be dismissed as a harmless mess when it’s attributed to a man.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Even in the present state of the world, the murder, wounding, and kidnapping of so many defenseless civilians is shocking in its depravity.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Miami Herald, which blew the lid on Epstein’s depravity, fought to get the filings unsealed.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2024
• This is the sort of depravity that deficit obsessions produce.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
• With his wild style and willingness to plumb the depths of depravity, Deep Red is the film that set the bar for just how far Argento is willing to go to squeeze a few screams out of his audience.
  — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
• In Season 7, the series tried to make up for it by spending 16 episodes demonstrating his depravity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2017
• As adults, Maeby and George Michael are more involved in the family's depravity, and Shawkat deservedly gets more screen time.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
• This is a detailed account of the depravity of that life, and an honest appraisal of Warner’s character.
  — Longreads, 17 Nov. 2021
• The onscreen depravity isn’t limited to Pierpoint’s higher-ups, though.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024