1 The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage.
2 We have reached the unprecedented low level; the awful criminal depravity of substituting the mob for the court and jury, of giving up the jail keys to the mob whenever they are demanded.
3 She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.
4 Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
5 Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonment in the eyes of the law.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 6 When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 7 The old artist always did himself well: he took berths on the Orient Express, in spite of Connie's dislike of trains de luxe, the atmosphere of vulgar depravity there is aboard them nowadays.
8 It was as though it were my most normal condition, and not in the least disease or depravity, so that at last all desire in me to struggle against this depravity passed.
9 All their faces, even in this guard of honour, showed a mixture of childishness and depravity.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 10 They were monstrously depraved.
11 Yes, I never loved her," said he to himself; "I knew she was a depraved woman," he repeated, "but dared not admit it to myself.
12 Yes, Count," she would say, "he is too noble and pure-souled for our present, depraved world.
13 He was hard alike on the lazy, the depraved, and the weak, and tried to get them expelled from the commune.
14 Everything that is young and strong is being enticed away and depraved.
15 Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.