depravity

n 1: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles:

"the luxury and corruption among the upper classes";

"moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration";

"its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity" [syn: {corruption},

{degeneracy}]

2: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the

various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: {turpitude}]