1. Noun
Detraction; depreciation.
2. Noun
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
3. Noun
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
4. Noun
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
5. Noun
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"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
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