Main entry: depravity, turpitude
Definition: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
Usage: the various turpitudes of modern society
Main entry: putrefaction, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption
Definition: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Usage: 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