Deprave

I didn't know if I could fully deprave myself with an audience if I could see said audience. ❋ Lauren Oh (2011)

A sustained attack from a foe more insidious and corrupting than anything that had assailed our shores before; a demonic force that destroyed our mental health, that could deprave all who came into contact with it. ❋ Phelim O'Neill (2010)

Two members had remained exceedingly hostile to the case, and because of their refusal to compromise the jury declared: ‘We are unanimously of the opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.’ ❋ Unknown (2009)

Who cares if he robbed from those deprave life from others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lord Horror was the last novel to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts as likely to corrupt and deprave those who read it (the decision was finally overturned on appeal). ❋ Unknown (2009)

For their troubles, Besant and Bradlaugh stood in the dock accused of circulating obscene material calculated to deprave public morals and faced the likelihood of a lengthy stretch in jail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Obscene in the sense of calculated to disgust rather than to deprave or corrupt, yes." ❋ Unknown (2010)

These five persons must then say whether the book or periodical is ‘indecent’, which word ‘shall be construed as including calculated to excite sexual passions or to suggest or incite to sexual immorality or in any other way to corrupt or deprave’, or whether, if it be not ‘indecent’ it inculcates ‘principles contrary to public morality’, or ‘tends to be injurious or detrimental to or subversive of public morality’. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

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". ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

Under the Obscene Publications Act 1959: "an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect...is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it". ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

Looking again at the relevant wording in the Act, but now with different emphasis added: "an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect...is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it". ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

Information Technology act 2000, section 67, prohibits the publication or transmission of any material, ‘which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it’. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or corrupt their minds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who have sought to mislead opinion and to prevent the instruction of the people, to deprave morals and to corrupt the public conscience, to impair the energy and the purity of revolutionary and republican principles, or to impede the progress thereof, either by counter-revolutionary or insidious writings, or by any other machination; ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

So the technical basis for the decision to drop the prosecution was not whether the material tended to deprave or corrupt. ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)

If you call someone [depraved], you mean they are not only doing something perverted and [crude], but [shocking] and offensive as well. ❋ Robjef622 (2018)

Michele [Bachmann] and [Marcus Bachmann] are stridently outrageous in their condemnation of homosexuality, but they run a close second behind the even more depraved [Fred Phelps]. ❋ Lorelili (2011)

[u r] a depraved [fella] ❋ Him's Jd (2007)

[andy]! stop being a depraved animal and leave your [son]([reece]) alone! ❋ Glashieburn Fencing Fan69 (2021)

OMG the baby cried until [4AM], [I was sleep] [depraved], I can't even tell you the thoughts that crossed my mind, how to make her stop! ❋ Mmcg1 (2018)

❋ Grouter55 (2003)

[Kristen Stewart]. [Miley Cyrus]. [Vanessa Hudgens]. Paris Hilton (Even thogh she's no longer a "teen") ^^^ All Depraved Teenagers. ❋ Namronremmus (2009)

I'm so sleep depraved [at the moment], I'm having [wet dreams] every [night]! ❋ Shuaman (2019)

example of the use of depravative logic: If [pharmacists] are required to fill valid prescriptions for [contraceptives], doctors will start ordering women to [abort] disabled children and/or refuse to treat them. ❋ Ol Cranky (2005)

Once again [Anton's] gone for a round in the [depravity cavity] during the [inspection] ❋ KegLegKevin (2018)