How to Use depraved in a Sentence

depraved

adjective
  • He acted with depraved indifference to human suffering.
  • There are a lot of very strange, sort of depraved things that you’re asked to do.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 May 2024
  • Body counts on the screen like some depraved sports scorecard.
    — Stan Godlewski, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2025
  • Maybe the regime just takes a new form, an equally depraved regime.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • So many Democrats, so many depraved escapades.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Must a child be put on the stand to explain how your killer's depraved act has traumatized them?
    — Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • And so, to lie wantonly in bed with a book was considered depraved.
    — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
  • These are two of the mildest things to happen in this incredibly depraved book.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The film has a cast of thousands of depraved hooligan bikers with rusty weapons and rotten teeth.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Jünger continued to produce depraved scenes in many of his novels.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • The reporters quote a portion of the statute regarding depraved mind.
    — Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Any who strayed were considered as depraved, immoral, worthy of death.
    — Brandy Schillace, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • Last year, the president called Kim -- with his abysmal human rights record -- wicked and depraved.
    — Major Garrett, CBS News, 12 June 2018
  • But what starts off as reckless but inoffensive choices soon take a more depraved turn.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Collective shock and grief have long been replaced by a zombie mind-set of depraved acceptance.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Jacobs collapses the distance between the nation’s lofty ideals and its depraved slave regime.
    — Brian Delay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • As a filmmaker, he’s drawn to extremes — to the sensational and the depraved, the sordid and the evil.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • And when he was done with his depraved act, Rojas did not run, according to prosecutors.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Given the facts in this case, aiming a firearm at the door, and pulling the trigger is legally insufficient to prove depraved mind.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 June 2023
  • After all, there are enough ways for things to go wrong in the wild without adding on depraved locals or Pagan sacrifices.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • In the brain of a very cynical, very depraved person, this could appear to be a pre–Election Day win.
    — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 8 July 2020
  • Jace is a studious and honorable young man; Aegon is violent and depraved.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There’s narrative justice in lumping him with the weasel, the depraved, the criminal, the pedophile.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But no, a single depraved millionaire really did spend years loaning out trafficked teenagers to his rich and famous friends.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Which brings us to the most depraved and sordid aspect of this whole conspiratorial movement.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
  • In the early months of the pandemic, Americans took up bird-watching like depraved raptors.
    — Tim Neville, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2021
  • So many iconic movies were made during this time, about this time, that its version of the city as dangerous, depraved, and degraded lingered for decades.
    — David Lachapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
  • No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.
    — Avalon Zoppo, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The North Korean regime, in many ways a depraved outgrowth of Maoism, goes even further.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023

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