looseness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
Noun
  • Now, there are products for dryness, dullness, wrinkles, elasticity, laxity, acne...
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
  • This is about the age when skin laxity, jowling, and deeper folds are more pronounced.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 25 June 2025
  • Enter the wannabe patriot dealing with some perversion of the psyche.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • The document accused Jewish people of promoting white genocide and degeneracy.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a risk of indecency, certainly, but the boundary is subjective, and Bayern smashing 10 past Auckland was merely them completing a full day’s work.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Rodriguez was taken into custody without incident and transported to police headquarters where he was charged with breach of peace and public indecency.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Moderate degeneration of up to two lumbar intervertebral discs was confirmed by an MRI scan.
    Paul McClure May 06, New Atlas, 6 May 2025
  • Scientists have uncovered critical pathways to combat osteoporosis and related conditions more effectively and efficiently by studying rapid skeletal degeneration in microgravity.
    Shelli Brunswick, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The heavy stacks of cash fit into a pattern emerging throughout the trial as prosecutors attempt to paint Combs as a man spoiled by success, able to hide a tendency for abuse and criminality through a large staff and an ever-larger fortune.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • Advertisement Now, the three branches of government are under Republican control, enabled and empowered by a fact-free MAGA narrative in which the rhetoric around immigration is synonymous with violent criminality.
    Jose Antonio Vargas, Time, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The band's dissolution was hastened by Stone's drug abuse, which led to a pattern of ghosting his own shows.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Rapid dissolution can introduce too much of the drug too quickly, experts said, potentially causing tremors, headaches and kidney failure.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 23 June 2025
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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