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• v  corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
• s  deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
  depraved criminals

• The investigation paints a picture of a depraved yet thriving enterprise.
• It was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably .
• With its fractured account of junkies and assorted urban desperadoes, its fang-baring humor and its sudden excursions into sheer hallucination, it instantly made him the depraved .

• corrupt
• pervert
• subvert
• demoralize
• demoralise
• debauch
• debase
• profane
• vitiate
• deprave
• misdirect
• perverse
• perverted
• reprobate

News & Articles

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• Family of murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher shares devastation during hearing
  The man who raped and murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher has been described as one of the most depraved sex offenders in Australia.
  June 13, 2013 - Irish Central
• Decorum Is Dead: Nine Examples of Baseball Fans Going Mad Over Flying Objects
  It’s unclear when, exactly, common decency disappeared from our stadiums. It may have vanished long ago and we simply lacked the Twitter and Vine and Internet and depraved voyeuristic sensibility necessary to notice it. In any case, it’s gone. Evaporated.
  June 13, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• NY court upholds 'depraved indifference' murder
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's top court has upheld the murder conviction of a central New York man who beat a toddler to death, concluding he showed "depraved indifference" to the child's life.
  June 12, 2013 - New Jersey Herald

Quotes

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• Anthony Kennedy in New York Times
  Even a heinous crime committed by a juvenile,Justice Kennedy concluded, is not "evidence of irretrievably depraved character."
• Max Mosley in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Mr Mosley said: "I fundamentally disagree with the suggestion that any of this is depraved or immoral. I think it is a perfectly harmless activity provided it is between consenting adults who are of sound mind, and it is in private."
• Nicholas Scoppetta in International Herald Tribune
  In a statement, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta called the fire "an outrageous, depraved act that should be prosecuted to the full extent under the law."