School governors found the contents so depraved they called in the police. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Who cares if he robbed from those deprave life from others. From Wordnik.com. [Vic Mackey vs. Jack Bauer; Who Do You Choose? « Monster Scifi Show Blog] Reference
Maybe you like better deprave girl who charge high price, you scum-sergeant! '. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
"Obscene in the sense of calculated to disgust rather than to deprave or corrupt, yes.". From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
These may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or corrupt their minds. From Wordnik.com. [Cyber Crimes] Reference
And yet this great man must go on at once to corrupt and deprave what he has rightly discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
What, indeed, can tend to deprave the character more than outward submission and inward contempt?. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Bypass corporate and advertiser-led censorship - we can deprave and corrupt as long as it reads well. From Wordnik.com. [7 things print SF can do, which screen SF can't] Reference
But I think the bloke confused himself between deprave and deprive, and forgot that spellcheck is Evil. From Wordnik.com. [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference
We see, then, how foolishly they not only deprave this passage, but babble without the color of reason. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
So, here and now, starting from the top, take down these who deprave this beautiful world, and hang them. From Wordnik.com. [Of Good and Evil] Reference
So the technical basis for the decision to drop the prosecution was not whether the material tended to deprave or corrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
We can even institute honest media of honest information, which will no longer stunt, insult, belittle, damage and deprave. From Wordnik.com. ['Leaders', and what to do about them] Reference
Yet it must be remembered there is every thing here too, which can seduce, betray, deceive, deprave, corrupt and debauch it. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April - May 1780] Reference
No possible amount of good to ever so many can make it right to deprave ever so few; -- happiness and misery cannot be measured so!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
At the moment the Obscene Publications Act makes it illegal to publish or distribute material that is likely to `deprave or corrupt`. From Wordnik.com. [Income is income] Reference
At the moment the Obscene Publications Act makes it illegal to publish or distribute material that is likely to ` deprave or corrupt `. From Wordnik.com. [Income is income] Reference
And lastly, Des Etangs says that it is a symbol of eternal reason, whose enemies are the vices that deprave and finally destroy humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
The Berlin Wall was the visible symbol of the gulag, the pogrom, everything deprave and inhumane of the collectivism and the Soviet Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Economics and Philosophy of the Wall, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
As the added emphasised text demonstrates, it is for the Court to determine whether an article is "such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Let men take their choice, man and woman were made for each other, though not to become one being; and if they will not improve women, they will deprave them!. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
The question is whether this book tends to deprave the minds of those open to such influences, and into whose hands a publication of this character might come. From Wordnik.com. [Unprintable] Reference
He has been determined that if the rulers of the country will deny the truth, they shall not debauch it; if they depart from the constitution, they shall not deprave it. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
They do not tend to deprave or corrupt-on the contrary, they show the evil, the suffering and the despair which corruption and depravity bring in the bleakest possible light. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and Violence on the Bookstalls] Reference
They soil and deprave the soul, as vile acts do the body. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference
Such attacks are apt to deprave both the assailant and the assailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
What else could the Valentinians do with so plain a statement, but seek to deprave it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
To weaken, corrupt or deprave it would be a misfortune without parallel to our entire people. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece] Reference
It was not in the power of adulation to turn such a head, or deprave such a heart, as Addison's. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Power and riches were chiefly to be dreaded on account of their tendency to deprave the possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
I am seeking to cultivate nature and you are seeking to deprave it, the further apart we find ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
You say mothers spoil their children, and no doubt that is wrong, but it is worse to deprave them as you do. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
Success and unquestioned dominion far more often deprave and distort than ennoble and purify the moral nature of man. From Wordnik.com. [Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation] Reference
You would think that this predicament must deprave, and so without doubt it does; and yet it is not wholly depraving. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance] Reference
"But, Cousin, consider that, if you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.". From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference
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