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Morality's basement — the floor you didn't know existed until you hit it.
means A state of moral corruption so deep and settled that it describes rotten character itself, not just a single bad act.
from From Latin depravare — 'to distort or pervert' — built from de- (thoroughly) plus pravus, 'crooked, perverse.' The Latin root originally pictured something physically bent out of true, like a warped plank, before it came to mean a soul bent the same way.
- legal use
- measures how heinous a crime is for sentencing
- root word
- from Latin pravus, meaning crooked
- not spontaneous
- usually built slowly through small excused cruelties