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Noun: depravity  di'pra-vu-tee
  1. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
    "its brothels, its opium parlours, its depravity";
    - corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction
     
  2. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
    "the various depravities of modern society";
    - turpitude

Derived forms: depravities

Type of: evildoing, immorality, transgression

Encyclopedia: Depravity