0 present participle of deprave
1 to make someone depraved
Put together properly, it could produce a sensible, if uncompelling argument, but by the depraving touch of the babu it degenerates into unmitigated drivel.
Displaying themselves as careful, they give unnecessary instructions, investing so many hours, depraving so many spirits, which when invested in fruitful art give great fruits.
A picture that is corrupting and depraving is a picture that is not acceptable.
It is where the photograph itself is corrupting and depraving and where the activity that is being photographed is an offence to the child.
If the programme maker was accused of depraving or corrupting people in general—anybody who saw the item—it would be practically impossible to secure a prosecution.
The previous definition was that there had to be proof of its depraving and corrupting nature.
It might even find the photograph of the child not, from the point of view of the consumer, depraving or corrupting.
But there is an abundance of evidence that it is depraving our young people.
