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English to English noun
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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles |  | Example: the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
source: wordnet30
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a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | | Example: the various turpitudes of modern society
source: wordnet30
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The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. | | source: webster1913
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