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What does depravity mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
  2. (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
  3. (Christian) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
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The heat of asphalt, the lunacy of traffic and the depravity of narrow alleys crowd in on the characters.
The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
These radicals despise the West for what they consider the immorality, depravity, and dissoluteness of its mass culture.
No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated.
Aside from this confusion, this use of homicide as a dysphemism for suicide obscures the singular depravity of suicide terrorism.

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