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Depravities
- noun - a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society"
- 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"
Deprecating
- verb - belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
- express strong disapproval of; deplore
- tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
Deprecation
- noun - a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
Deprecative
- adjective - given to expressing disapproval
- tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
Depredation
- noun - (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease"
- an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
Deprivation
- noun - a state of extreme poverty
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
- the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
Derecognise
- verb - cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"
Derecognize
- verb - cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"
Dereliction
- noun - a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
- willful negligence
Desacralize
- verb - transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control