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Noun
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The unaccountable bureaucracy and bloated government that find a home there, and the public and private corruption that go along with them, face serious scrutiny and genuine antagonism for the first time in a while.—
Jack Butler,
National Review,
2 Mar. 2025 -
Countries with weak economic growth, high inflation, widespread corruption, and fragile institutions face the greatest risk.—
Aldo Flores-Quiroga,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Clark, instead, memorializes Black Twitter, hoping to prevent further perversion of Black innovation, Black language, culture and style.—
J Wortham,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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Molina, a gay hairdresser convicted of public indecency during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, has been sent to the political wing of a prison and put in the same cell as Valentin Arregui (a solid, if unremarkable Diego Luna), an intense and serious-minded Marxist revolutionary.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Such insects accelerate microbial decay by grinding wood down to smaller bits, while also digesting some themselves.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Cats and dogs can detect odor and decay from long distances.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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They are often banned from visiting temples and forced to live apart from higher-caste communities, often in squalor and farther from access to services.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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The writer-director revisits an idea that worked well in his screenplay for 2002’s Chicago — paralleling squalor and splendor, with central characters stuck in grim reality seeking escape through Golden Age Hollywood musical fantasy.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2022
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A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.—
Orange County Register,
Orange County Register,
1 Apr. 2017
Noun
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Combined with his two escapes from prison, representing himself in court, the sheer number of victims and the depravity of his crimes, Bundy left behind a horrifying, but powerful, legacy that remains over 30 years after his death by electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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And a few good men and women, fighting to survive amidst all the malice and depravity.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Scurrilousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilousness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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