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The house has fallen into decrepitude.
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His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrepitude. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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decrepitude
noun
de·crep·i·tude
di-ˈkrep-ə-ˌt(y)üd 
: the quality or state of being decrepit : loss of strength or sturdiness especially from old age
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