depravity

Still I recognized that justice must be done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonement in the eyes of the law.

I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me.

Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.