scurrilousness

noun

Definition of scurrilousnessnext
as in pervertedness

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  1. corruption
  2. degeneracy
  3. perversion
  4. indecency
  5. decay
  6. squalor
  7. malefaction
  8. depravity
Noun
  • In 2016, parliament impeached Park Geun-hye, the country’s first female president, over a corruption scandal.
    Kim Tong-Hyung, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The only other president to be successfully impeached was Park Geun-hye, a conservative who left office in 2017 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a corruption scandal involving major corporations and the daughter of a cult leader.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • There’s an itch to depict Diddy as a Black Jeffrey Epstein, the ringleader of clandestine, A-list perversion.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • The announcement comes after the district on July 31 told parents that LBJ band, piano and choir teacher Rodney Childers had been arrested and charged with indecency with a child by exposure and two counts of improper educator-student relationship, all second-degree felonies.
    Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In short, when faced with a genuine choice between civility and decency versus vulgarity and indecency, most Americans who voted in the 2024 elections opted for the latter.
    Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In the early to mid 20th century, older adults quite commonly developed such severe dental decay, necessitating complete dental extractions followed by dentures by the 7th or 8th decades of life.
    Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of decay
Noun
  • Bailey looked out at the landscape again, thinking about El Naga’s description, the squalor of the NCI, the fractures between the United States and the Middle East.
    Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
  • Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024
Definition of squalor
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of malefaction
Noun
  • Attempts to extradite him from London back to France were thwarted partially due to the new awareness of the depravity that reigned in the island jail.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The country’s financial straits, together with the explosion that devastated the port of Beirut in 2020, have exposed the depravity of Lebanon’s political class.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of depravity
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