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How to pronounce depravation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction
Type of immorality
Derivation deprave

Examples of depravation

depravation
We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity.
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The remedy for erroneous depravation of first choice counsel is automatic reversal.
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When the pleasurable activity ends, the person is left with a feeling of depravation.
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As his wife tries to fulfill her marital duties, the depth of his depravation is revealed.
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They have lived under untenable conditions of misery and depravation.
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In Vietnam, the Marine grunt lived a life of constant depravation.
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The brutality, starvation, and depravation that occurred to these children were absolutely atrocious.
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She was wholly believable as the star who was so ravenous for attention she would stoop to any depravation.
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So she endorsed James Frey's fiction of depravation and redemption, and did the same with a made-up Holocaust love story.
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More examples
  • Corruption: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
  • Detraction; depreciation; The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting; The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity; Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion