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Depraved definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPRAVED, pp.
1. Made bad or worse; vitiated; tainted; corrupted.
2. A. Corrupt; wicked; destitute of holiness or good principles.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century marked by corruption or evil; especially perverted • depravedly adverb • depravedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deprave De*prave", n. t. [imp. & p. p. Depraved; p. pr. & vb. n. Depraving.] [L. depravare, depravatum; de- + pravus crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked.] 1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. [Obs.] And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. --Piers Plowman. 2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. --Spenser. Syn: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil. ...a disturbing and depraved film... = degenerate ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

p., a. Corrupted, corrupt, vicious, wicked, profligate, dissolute, reprobate, graceless, abandoned, shameless, hardened, lost.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, cheesy, contaminated, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, crummy, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dissolute, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, infamous, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miscreant, miserable, monstrous, morally polluted, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, perverse, perverted, petty, poky, polluted, poor, profligate, putrid, rank, reprobate, reptilian, rotten, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, small, squalid, steeped in iniquity, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unmentionable, vice-corrupted, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, vitiated, warped, wretched