Deprave \De*prave"\ (d[-e]*pr[=a]v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Depraved (d[-e]*pr[=a]vd"); 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.]
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And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide
Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart. --Piers
Plowman.
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2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
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Whose pride depraves each other better part.
--Spenser.
Syn: To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
depraved
adj 1: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
2: hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal" [syn: unreformable,
unregenerate]
3: marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered
right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a
perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a
gambling aristocrat" [syn: immoral, perverse, perverted,
reprobate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "depraved":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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