to deprave

Examples

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• If I seem to express a view, do not pay any attention to it unless you agree with it, but you may think...') seemed to identify 'the tendency to deprave and corrupt' in what he interpreted as Lawrence's approval, in writing the book, of the adultery.

  Academic text (2010)

• Scambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys, that lie and cog, and flout, deprave and slander.

  Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

• But they also, if their claim to priority is secure, tend to deprave political practice on account of their abstraction from lived experience.

  Academic text (1993)

• Dreams of a happy life of 'more accumulated benefits' to be enjoyed, and more leisure time in which to enjoy them, thus gave rise to force over others, a force that depraves the mind of its user.

  Blog text (2)

• Most importantly, Section 4 of the Act provided that even if the jury found that the book tended to deprave and corrupt, it could nonetheless acquit if persuaded that publication is justified in the interests of science, literature, art, and learning or any other object of general concern.

  Academic text (2010)

• It penetrates everything, erodes everything, depraves everything to the core. In 1930, as film critic of one of the leading Dutch newspapers, he wrote a piece entitled: "Americanism in the film world."

  Academic text (1990)

• The constant violence in movies can deprave young viewers, leading them to accept aggressive behavior as normal.

• Exposure to harmful ideologies can deprave a person's sense of right and wrong over time.

• His corrupt actions began to deprave the community's values, causing distrust among the residents.

Synonyms

C

to corrupt

vsto deprave

125 4.5

To make someone act dishonestly, often by giving them money

focuses on moral corruption in general rather than specific bribery methods

D

to degrade

vsto deprave

55 5.1

To treat someone so they feel ashamed or less respected

targets moral corruption specifically rather than loss of respect or dignity

D

to defile

vsto deprave

38 8.6

To make something dirty or harm its reputation

focuses on moral corruption rather than physical dirtiness or reputational harm

D

to debase

vsto deprave

12 7.7

To make someone's morals worse by causing selfish or dishonest behaviour

is the plain statement of causing moral wickedness without tone on indulgence

P

to pervert

vsto deprave

• NSFW

9 7.9

Cause someone to do things that are morally wrong

is the general act of causing moral badness without naming the method

D

to debauch

vsto deprave

• NSFW

3 9.9

To lead someone into too much drinking, sex, or other wrong acts

is broader, meaning to cause moral wickedness not limited to indulgence

S

to subvert

vsto deprave

3 8.4

To make someone behave in a morally wrong way

is a general term for causing moral badness without political or covert aims

D

to demoralize

vsto deprave

• Formal

1 7.5

To make someone lose their sense of right and wrong

emphasizes the act of making someone morally bad rather than lowering morale

P

to profane

vsto deprave

1 8.4

To make people less moral by encouraging bad behaviour

is the broad action of producing moral wickedness, not only through pleasure

V

to vitiate

vsto deprave

• Formal

9.9

Make a person lose moral strength or become corrupt

is the simple idea of making someone morally bad rather than showing process

Antonyms

P

to purify

• Formal

28 5.1

To make someone feel morally clean and free from guilt

How Corrupt

to pervert

• NSFW

9 7.9

to deprave

• Formal

1 8.3

to corrupt

125 4.5

to tempt

146 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology