The word 'depravity' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun used to describe a state of being morally corrupt or degraded. Example sentence: His depravity was evident in his speech and actions.
The New York Times called the report "a portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach".
Its secretary general, Salil Shetty, said the "scale and depravity" of the group's methods had been laid bare in a new Amnesty report based on nearly 200 witness accounts.
The nondescript building has been identified as the headquarters of Russia's "troll army", where hundreds of paid bloggers work round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments sections of western publications with remarks praising the president, Vladimir Putin, and raging at the depravity and injustice of the west.
They went on trial in 1966 and were described as "sadistic killers of the utmost depravity" when they were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Even for a show about such nefarious matters, the writers have found yet deeper recesses in the basement of human depravity.
Graham Greene, infamously, reviewing Wee Willie Winkie in the London weekly Night and Day, wrote: "Infancy with her is a disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult … her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry … watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity.
Nightcrawler has done well, with four nominations, including of course an acting nod for Jake Gyllenhaal (although Riz Ahmed is entitled to feel disappointed that he did not get a best supporting actor nomination) and it is an excellent film with a very contemporary feel, although based on a traditional Hollywood theme: the depravity of television and particularly television news.
It is horrifying not only because of the sadistic violence she endured, but also because of how easily she seemed to slip into this spiral of depravity and how difficult she found it to get out.
Like Bacall, she had a low and husky voice, but she was far harder; in fact, she was able to suggest hidden depths of depravity – the ideal femme fatale of the 1940s.
Fed by ideology, opportunity and the ready availability of frustrated young men holding their lives cheap the conflagration shows no signs of abating or lessening in its depravity.
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.This encouraging trend was quickly overshadowed, starting in the mid-1980s, by a new swarm of teenagers caught up in a new sort of depravity: the craze for crack cocaine.
