Sentence examples for to be depraved from inspiring English sources

There is no reason to believe that both spiritual and public life are improved when human beings are assumed to be depraved.

And the Dominican Jean-Baptiste du Tertre whose church had warned him he would find black atheists in the Antilles to be depraved found otherwise.

In criminal cases under this act, jurors are asked not if the material before them is obscene but if an imaginary third party who is "likely" to see it would tend to be depraved or corrupted.

The law, Aquinas suggests, must use "force and fear" in order to restrain those who are "found to be depraved, and prone to vice, and not easily amenable to words," so that they will "desist from evil-doing, and leave others in peace," as well as become "habituated in this way," and "virtuous" (Aquinas, ST, I.II Q95 A1).

The test is based on "persons"; DPP v Whyte [1972] AC 849 established that it was not sufficient for an individual to be depraved or corrupted, it must be that a significant number of people likely to read it would become corrupt.

Such a person is not only unfit to parent, but must be depraved and heartless.

I think this is pretty implausible, and not merely because I don't think that the parties involved would be depraved enough as to commit those atrocities, nor smart enough to get away with it.

Stuff like this could be depraving us, it's a little late for saving us, Cause we've seen a lot woise.

Consider: Is a father who is depraved enough to kill his own son really going to be dissuaded by a law that says he must notify the authorities of his son's death within an hour of having killed him?

A two-bit Albuquerque attorney whose "office" is the utility closet, Jimmy ekes out a living as a public defender, representing the kind of clients who are depraved enough to sexually abuse a corpse and stupid enough to videotape the proceedings.

To God, indeed, even infants were depraved, unregenerate, and damned.