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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 de·praved /dɪˈprevd/
 (a.)墮落的,頹廢的,卑鄙的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·prave v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depraved p. pr. & vb. n. Depraving.]
 1. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile. [Obs.]
 And thou knowest, conscience, I came not to chide
 Nor deprave thy person with a proud heart.   --Piers Plowman.
 2. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
    Whose pride depraves each other better part.   --Spenser.
 Syn: -- To corrupt; vitiate; contaminate; pollute.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 depraved
      adj 1: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
      2: hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal" [syn: unreformable,
          unregenerate]
      3: marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered
         right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a
         perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a
         gambling aristocrat" [syn: immoral, perverse, perverted,
          reprobate]