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depraved

/dɪˈpɹeɪvd/ adjective C2
  1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense. · a depraved killer
  2. Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.
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“There is,” said he, at the end of his meditations, “a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 161 · C1

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