How to Use depraved in a Sentence

depraved

adjective
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  • He acted with depraved indifference to human suffering.
  • 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 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
  • In the early months of the pandemic, Americans took up bird-watching like depraved raptors.
    — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Collective shock and grief have long been replaced by a zombie mind-set of depraved acceptance.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Some priests and nuns at the Catholic schools were involved in the most depraved abuses, including at an Ontario school where students were shocked on a homemade electric chair.
    — Ian Austen and Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Maxwell, the daughter of British press baron Robert Maxwell, knew nothing of Epstein's depraved appetite for young girls, the attorney said.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2021

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