Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a depraving manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a depraving manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
depraving manner.
Etymologies
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depraving + -ly
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Examples
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This kind of life acts on military men even more depravingly than on others, because if any other than a military man lead such a life he cannot help being ashamed of it in the depth of his heart.
Resurrection 2003
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This kind of life acts on military men even more depravingly than on others, because if any other than a military man lead such a life he cannot help being ashamed of it in the depth of his heart.
Voskresenie. English Leo Tolstoy 1869
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