英语单词“depravity”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 depravity 释义 depravitynoun[UorC]uk

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/d??pr?v.?.t?i/thestateof beingmorallybad, or anactionthat ismorallybad道德败坏，堕落Synonymturpitudeformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Morally wrong and evil

• abhorrent
• amoral
• amorality
• anomie
• antichrist
• dissipated
• dissolute
• dissolutely
• dissoluteness
• enormity
• no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
• non-ethical
• obscene
• obscenely
• obscenity
• turpitude
• unconscionable
• unconscionably
• unethical
• unprincipled

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(Definition ofdepravityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)

Examples from literature

• An extraordinary theft was committed about the middle of the month, which very forcibly marked the inherent depravity of some of these miscreants.
• She may be accused of tenderness, but never of depravity.
• She sits with her eyes full of tears that never fall, and looks at me, when I displease her, as if I were a perfect monster of depravity.
• The horrible scenes of depravity he has witnessed in the barracks whence he has emerged, must have produced their natural effect on his mind.
• Unrestrained selfishness, while it naturally conserves the individual interests, in its ultimate tendencies, is the very essence of human depravity.

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