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Recent Examples of scatological
Other wrestlers confirmed include fan favorites Paquita VaVoom (and her terrifying chancla), Los Crazy Chickens, and the scatological master of lucha libre, Dirty Sanchez.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scatological
Adjective
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A lot of true crime content is salacious and gory, full of reenactments and shock.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Further discontentment also stemmed from Fennell’s general spearheading of the project, given her affinity for the salacious and the fact that the pic is not billed as a modern retelling.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Lapid trades in indelicate satire for indelicate times — Y at one point literally and lavishly licks his wealthy benefactor’s gleaming knee-high boots — so these grisly verses at first seem a typically blunt caricature of Israeli nationalism at its most ruthless.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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If any lawsuit ends up in court, a judge or jury will have to decide if an indelicate social media posting is worth more than $500,000 for the bereaved of Sade Robinson.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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The actress had previously teamed up with the company for a suggestive body wash commercial.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Like fall’s auburn leaves and bounty of crisp apples, checks, in all its iterations, kindle a cozy familiarity suggestive of the season.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And while this time there are no actual goats wandering around, Sedgwick provides some barnyard accompaniment with a screaming toy as Bacon strums his acoustic guitar.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
10 Feb. 2023
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Shaun the Sheep fans can't get enough of these barnyard animals and all their gentle adventures.—
Marisa LaScala,
Good Housekeeping,
30 Sep. 2022
Adjective
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The thirty looks that followed played with a palette of tans, turquoise, oranges, and earthy browns.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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Heliotrope brings that powdery element, matcha and green clover add something bright and earthy, and musk acts as a skin-enhancer that softens out the entire composition.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Australian screenwriter McNamara’s comic sensibilities are more in line with English than American humor — which brings the plus of scathing wit, if also the minus of a certain decorum even in outbursts of indecorous fury.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Aug. 2025
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The massive tag is gone now but something just as indecorous seems likely to replace it.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Over the years, the notoriously ribald Stern has interviewed hundreds of actors, comedians, music artists, athletes, politicians and more on his show.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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Much of the dialogue is hilariously ribald, especially in a locker room scene in which the two nude men share a tender familial embrace after comparing penises.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 June 2023
Adjective
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These factors are steadily eroding the viability of family farms and the broader agricultural economy.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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The system, currently a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, now has a 90% chance of development within the next seven days, according to the latest forecast.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Scatological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scatological. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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