Depraved

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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