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
  • The committee identified graft and corruption, inefficiencies and waste.
    Bruce W. Dearstyne / Made by History, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The first is Sweeney Todd — an interesting choice, seeing as Stephen Sondheim’s cannibalistic tale explores themes of political corruption and the destructive forces of free markets.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • Originally, there was a title sequence that had nothing to do with John Doe and his fingertips or any of his composition book perversions.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • Ricardo Reyes Mata, a catholic priest and Dallas resident, was arrested by Garland police Monday on two felony counts of indecency with a child, police said in a release.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 7 May 2024
  • 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
Definition of indecency
Noun
  • These economies are much more vulnerable to existential economic and environmental shocks and downward spirals of community decay than urban economies, which have built up more diversified tradable income sources over time.
    Tim Freeman, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Summary Dental fillings help maintain the structure and function of natural teeth damaged by tooth decay.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025
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
  • Internet tabloids made Ferrell into an avatar of the depravity of millennial excess in gentrifying Brooklyn.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Kendrick Lamar and Drake made a show out of accusing one another of depravity.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of depravity
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