depravity

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de·prav·i·ty

(dĕ-prav'i-tē),

A depraved act or the condition of being depraved.

An inherent deficiency of moral sense and rectitude, equivalent to the statutory term, ‘depravity of heart’, defined as the highest grade of malice, or indifference to the lives of others, which may result in a person’s conviction of second-degree murder

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Once he had their e-mail addresses, the father of two used some of the most advanced computer programmes seen by police to hack into their PCs, clearly demonstrating the "horrors that lurk within the internet" and the depravity of some of those using it.

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