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Six example sentences with depravity, each labelled with its topic.
The novel traces one banker's slow depravity, until bribing orphanage inspectors strikes him as ordinary Tuesday business.
Literature
The villain's depravity is established early: he cheats his own sister, then lies about it to her children.
Movies
Some Enlightenment writers argued that isolation breeds depravity, since a person who answers to nobody stops asking whether anything is wrong.
Philosophy
The judge called the scheme a depravity, since it preyed on widows who had trusted the defendant for thirty years.
Law
The senator's depravity showed in the way he sold his vote to whoever paid most and then bragged about the price.
Politics
Roman writers dwelt on the emperor's depravity, listing every cruelty and broken oath, though his enemies wrote most of the stories.
History
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