disgracefulness

noun

Definition of disgracefulnessnext
as in pervertedness

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  1. degradation
  2. profligacy
  3. dissipation
  4. corruption
  5. perversion
  6. degeneracy
Noun
  • Risk mitigation: Investors recognize that climate change and environmental degradation pose long-term risks to the financial system and specific sectors.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In addition, there has been some recent degradation of rangeland and pastures, as well as a lack of soil moisture for the establishment of fall-sown crops, including winter wheat, according to the USDA.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of degradation
Noun
  • For stock investors, surging yields due to fiscal profligacy (as opposed to strong economic growth) would likely weigh on the stock market.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Getty Images These extremely high public debt burdens are not due to fiscal profligacy.
    Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024
Definition of profligacy
Noun
  • In fact, in this place of supposed healing, Wojnicz begins to notice a certain strange dissipation, as if no one were actually getting better at all.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024
  • It’s also wrapped in a breathable cover that helps with heat dissipation.
    Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • Topline Investigators specializing in financial crime and corruption raided the Paris office of streaming giant Netflix Tuesday morning, multiple outlets reported, as a simultaneous search took place at the company’s EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That ban, which dated to the 1800s, was designed to reduce bribery and corruption during elections, Reuters reported.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of corruption
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
  • 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
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