scrofulous

adjective

Definition of scrofulousnext
as in debased

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  1. corrupt
  2. depraved
  3. degenerate
  4. dissolute
  5. sick
  6. pestilential
  7. perverted
  8. pernicious
Adjective
  • Not Arresting Trump | Opinion Instead of fostering violence or corrupt attempts at compromising the certification of election results, the post-election antics of the Republican party in North Carolina were quite peaceful.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Emmy winner and Oscar nominee was among three dozen wealthy parents across the country who paid a corrupt college consultant tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their children fraudulently admitted to top schools by inflating test scores or fabricating athletic accomplishments.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • So many iconic movies were made during this time, about this time, that its version of the city as dangerous, depraved, and degraded lingered for decades.
    David LaChapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of depraved
Adjective
  • Ammon did appear tempted to talk the walk in Portland, to become the Mormon cowboy philosopher king wandering a degenerate realm of an ailing Republic, but by now time was in extremely short supply.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Or have his years in finance scrambled his brain and turned him into a degenerate gambler, both at the office and outside it?
    Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of degenerate
Adjective
  • Imbert reminds us of social change and collapse via brief flashbacks to Pierre’s dissolute life before his fall.
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But as evidence of the miscarriage of justice gradually came to light — including the identity of the actual traitor, a dissolute nobleman named Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy — more people joined Dreyfus’ cause.
    Maurice Samuels / Made by History, TIME, 21 May 2024
Definition of dissolute
Adjective
  • The agency said Wednesday that the person was exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks; this is the first US bird flu case linked to a backyard flock.
    Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • By Weiland’s estimates, up to 300,000 people in the U.S. are currently getting sick with COVID-19 each day, compared to around 1 million cases per day around this time in recent years.
    Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of sick
Adjective
  • And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.
    Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2015
  • But life back then was pretty sketchy and precarious even without pestilential rats running around, unbound.
    Scott LaFee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
Definition of pestilential
Adjective
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
  • Otherwise, things can get dicey, spending all day filming bloodied bodies posed in perverted Biblical poses.
    William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of perverted
Adjective
  • Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
Definition of pernicious
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