Synonyms:
corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
Meaning: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
Synonyms:
depravity, turpitude
Meaning: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society"
Usage examples
What held her up--surely not depravity?
He had goaded them to desperation with his shameless depravity till they spoke openly of putting him to a violent death, and he laughed.
Maximilian was personally brave and free from depravity or premeditated perfidy, but he was coarse, volatile, inconsistent, and not very able.
I maintain, therefore, that confession, far from being an incentive to sin, as our adversaries have the hardihood to affirm, is a most powerful check on the depravity of men and a most effectual preventive of their criminal excesses.