Antonyms for depraved

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-preyvd

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpreɪvd

Definition of depraved

Origin : late 14c., "corrupt, lead astray, pervert," from Old French depraver (14c.) or directly from Latin depravare "distort, disfigure;" figuratively "to pervert, seduce, corrupt," from de- "completely" (see de-) + pravus "crooked." Related: Depraved; depraving.

adj corrupt, immoral

Example sentences :

So hard it is, even for the most depraved, to stifle the last embers of the moral sense.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

Judging from your associate, I might with justice think you depraved.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The most depraved of mortals has his moments of the higher vision.
Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad

Then we should have had a drastic representation of the depraved derelicts.
Extract from : « Maxim Gorki » by Hans Ostwald

He appealed to Zinzendorf, and found to his dismay that the Count was as depraved as the rest.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

All of you, back on Earth, were vicious and depraved criminals.
Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley

Bradshaw has been depraved by the moral atmosphere of Germany.
Extract from : « A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories » by William D. Howells

But so depraved a child,—are you not afraid she will teach her some mischief?
Extract from : « Uncle Tom's Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The meaning of three or four words is forced, changed, and depraved—and all is said.
Extract from : « Sophisms of the Protectionists » by Frederic Bastiat

If she has played the fool, it was with you, and no other man: it is not as if she was depraved.
Extract from : « White Lies » by Charles Reade

Synonyms for depraved

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